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Literary Taste: How to Form It

Arnold Bennett

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Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 describe his method for learning to enjoy literature. Chapters 11, 12, and 13 contain detailed lists of the 337 volumes required to complete a comprehensive library of English works.

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. . .pan> from the book, will understand the man by the book, as is, of course, logically proper. But the beginner will do well to aid himself in understanding the book by means of independent information about the man. He will thus at once relate the book to something human, and strengthen in his mind the essential notion of the connection between literature and life. The earliest literature was delivered orally direct by the artist to the recipient. In some respects this arrangement was ideal. Changes in the constitution of society have rendered it impossible. Nevertheless, we can still, by the exercise of the imagination, hear mentally the accents of the artist speaking to us. We must so exercise our imagination as to feel the man behind the book.

Some biographical information about Lamb should be acquired. There are excellent short biographies of him by Canon Ainger in the Dictionary of National Biography, in Chambers. . . Read More

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يرى الكاتب من خلال نظرته الفلسفية للأدب بأنه ليس أمراً مكملاً كما هو متعارف ع

يتناول الكتاب بعض الأعتبارات والنصائح والتوصيات التي من شأنها أن تساعد في مشروع تكوين الذوق الأدبي الدقيق والشاق. وتعامل الكتاب مع نظرية الأدب وسيكولوجية المؤلف، وبالقدر ذاته مع سيكولوجية القارئ أيضاً
ولربما أعترف الكاتب أنه لم يعمل على رسم خارطة طريق أدبية، لكنه خصص الكثير من الوقت للتذكير بمؤلفات إ

I took much away from this book. It's engaging, well thought-out, and there's so much fodder for thought. One of the main things I took away was this: Ideas are only as clear as the words expressing them. Think you have a brilliant idea but only lack the words to express it? Fiddlesticks, says Benne

"It is only in the stress of fine ideas and emotions that a man may be truly said to live" - Arnold Bennett

Favorite book I have encountered so far on the contemplative discipline of reading. If Mortimer J. Adler's book is a "work of knowledge" meant to inform, this book is a "work of power" meant to

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