The Thinking Behind Grammar and Style
Pattern and Feeling
The English art historian and philosopher Herbert Read wrote, among a long list of important titles, an excellent little work entitled The Meaning of Art. Composed for the general reader and not exclusively for the scholar, Read’s short introduction makes an important point early on: a work of art comprises both objective pattern and personal…
Time Now and Then and Having Been
It’s fine to talk about the importance of the humanities, but it’s finer to practice them. In the humanities of language and literature (two subjects which can be separated only academically), how well we come to appreciate what we’re reading depends to a great extent on how well we understand what the language is doing.…
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