She achieves this in Bits of Gossip in a series of scattered remembrances of my own generation which included vivid portraits of some of the most prominent men and women of the American nineteenth century...
Here she examines Stephen Crane
, Nathaniel Hawthorne
, Ezra Pound
, and W. H. Auden
, as examples of the role and operation of poets or fiction writers who also produce criticism.
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Matilda Betham-Edwards
Helen Black questioned her closely about her preferences in literature, and learned that Betham-Edwards endeavour[ed] to appreciate all the living novelists, but found the school of Tolstoy
, Ibsen
, and Zolarepulsive in the...
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Evelyn Sharp
The piece was published the same year. ES
used stories by Richard Garnett
and Nathaniel Hawthorne
as sources. She had been working on her lyrics since June 1927, when she sent Vaughan Williams the fruits...