The complete online text of Literary Taste: How to Form It by Arnold Bennett.

The English novelist and dramatist Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was the author of The Old Wives' Tale, a masterpiece of realism. Arnold Bennett was born on May 27, 1867, in Hanley, one of the pottery-making "Six Towns" of central England. The youth, called...

Enoch Arnold Bennett was a multifaceted celebrity in his day--novelist, short-story writer, critic, journalist, playwright, travelogue writer, prodigious letter writer, watercolorist, member of government, yachtsman--with diverse interests and phenomenal...

Straw was laid in the streets outside Chiltern Court, to deaden sounds, while Arnold Bennett lay dying in his flat there. It was the last time the city of London was to pay such respect to a public figure. To some extent this respect was nostalgic becaus...

Proust, the Body and Literary Form. By MICHAEL R. FINN. (Cambridge Studies in French, 59) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1999. 207 pp. Proust as fastidious valetudinarian and his Narrator's excessively nervous disposition have fascinated biographers and critical commentators from the very beginning....

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Literary Forms In The Old Testament The Old Testament is a library, not only of many books, but of many different literary forms. Many of these forms are common to other literature of the Near East from which Israel for centuries...