the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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F. L. Lucas : Studies French and English

Tuesday 17 September 1940: 'Yesterday in the Public Library I took down a book of Peter Lucas's criticism [...] London Library atmosphere effused. Turned me against all lit crit [...] Is all lit. crit. that kind of exhausted air? -- book dust, London Library, air. Or is it only that F.L.L[ucas] is a second hand, frozen fingered, university specialist, don trying to be creative, don all stuffed with books, writer? Would one say the same of the Common Reader [by Woolf]? I dipped for 5 minutes & put the book back depressed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

F. L. Lucas : 'The Graces'

'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] Reading F. R. Lucas also [quotes seven lines beginning with 'Your quiet altar after all was best']'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

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