...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...

...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 91 know: the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master...

...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 valleys, or be...

...Composition and creative writing 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 valleys, or be...

...Aldiss "One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude." — Carl Sandburg "The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always mastersomething that at time strangely wills and works for itself." — Charlotte Bronte "The thing...

...over-zealously. Creative writers confronted with Charlotte's description of the power of which the owner 'is not always master — something that at times strangely wills and works for itself (327) are more apt to recognise what their colleague was talking about a century and a half ago.31...

...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 valleys, or be...