 Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know: the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1431851Full view - About this book
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...433 On ' Wuthering Heights ' YVTHETHER it is right or advisable to create W beings like Heathcliff, I do not know : I scarcely think it is. But this I...years lie in subjection ; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent to ' harrow the valleys, or be... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 pages
...1816-1855 On ' Wuthering Heights ' WHETHER it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know : I scarcely think it is. But this I...times, strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down\rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection... | |
 | Ronald Grey Gordon - Personality - 1928 - 328 pages
...In similar strain Charlotte Bronte in the preface to her sister Emily's Wuthering Heights, says, " But this I know ; the writer who possesses the creative...something that, at times, strangely wills and works itself. . . . ". . . As for you — the nominal artist — your share in it has been to work passively... | |
 | Grant Martin Overton - Fiction - 1928 - 394 pages
...wait thus often comes to me. And Charlotte, in her preface to Wuthering Heights, puts it honestly: The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself. . . . Your share in it has been to work passively under dictates you neither delivered nor could question.... | |
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