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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'm sorry, but I really can't agree with you. If you ever take an interest in the subject (and I don't blame you in the least if you don't), do a little reading on the background of the so-called Bloomsbury Group which included authors like Woolf and E.M. Forster. They despised authors who wrote to make money. To my mind, that makes them hopelessly pretentious, but in their own eyes they were creating "art", not writing for the uneducated masses. That probably explains why their books are so un-enjoyable.
We'll have to agree to differ, I suspect. |
Surely that definition disagrees with your own views on Literary as well though, considering you use Shakespeare and Dickens as examples.