...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...creative gift owns something of which he is not always master—something that at times strangely wills and works for itself." 23 What Emily wills to express...

...experience some comprehension of the world as it looks to each of us. Dorothea Brande, Becoming a Writer But this I know: the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which heis not always master-something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result...

...life— a Ghoul — an Afreet.1" Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I...will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, 12 WH 44, ll. 24-7, quoted from memory. 13 WH 411, ll. 7-8, similarly quoted. 14 An Afreet is 'an evil...

...demon life - a Ghoul - an Afreet.5 Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I...that at times strangely wills and works for itself . . . Be the work grim or glorious, dread or divine, you have little choice left but quiescent adoption...

...sister's prefatory remarks: 'the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he \sic] is not always master something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. Critics of Wuthering Heights as diverse as Fredric Jameson and Frank Kermode have remarked on its unsettling...

...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...creative gift owns something of which he is not always master—something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and...

...propriety co-exists uneasily with the imaginative impulse: that 'creative gift of which [the writer] is not always master - something that at times strangely wills and works for itself', as Charlotte Bronte put it, attempting to explain and excuse her sister's creation of Heathcliff, in...