 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
 | U. C. Knoepflmacher - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 164 pages
...Edition of 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...creative gift owns something of which he is not always a master - something that strangely wills and works for itself." The sister whom Charlotte here masculinizes... | |
 | Lyn Pykett - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 164 pages
...theory of creativity in which the literary work comes unbidden to the possessor of the creative gift. [T]he writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master . . . He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for... | |
 | Robert M. Polhemus - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 395 pages
...it, says of her sister's hero, "Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I...something that at times strangely wills and works for itself."23 What Emily wills to express through Heathcliff is the insatiable need for permanent love... | |
 | David Norton - Bible - 1993 - 512 pages
...possihly from her own expetience, that 'the wtiter who possesses the creative gift owns something of wh1ch he is not always master- something that at times strangely wills and works for irself. Lawrence purs the idea most challengingly: 'the artist usually sers out - or used to - to point... | |
 | Miriam Farris Allott - Biography & Autobiography - 1974 - 500 pages
...demon life - a Ghoul - an Afreet. Whether it is right or advisable to create 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 vallies, or be... | |
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