The Boston Globe, March 11th, 1992
PASSIONS OF THE MIND Selected Essays by A. S. Byatt Turtle Bay Books/Random House, 332 pp., $25 "I was and am excited by T. S. Eliot's observation that our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion," comments A. S. Byatt at the start of this provocative gathering of critical writings. The essays explore themes similar to those of her best-selling novel "Possession," which imagined contemporary scholars sleuthing a romance between Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti stand-ins -- the nature of myth in a demythologized universe, incarnation, the adequacy of words to descr...
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