You must, so far as in you lies, become an Achaean chief while reading Homer, a medieval knight while reading Malory, and an eighteenth century Londoner while reading Johnson. Only thus will you be able to judge the work ‘in the same spirit that its author writ’ and to avoid chimerical criticism. – A Preface to Paradise Lost, 64
Seeing through Other Eyes
April 9, 2008 at 10:16 am (Literature)
