Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey
Giles Lytton Stracheywas a British writer and critic...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth1 March 1880
dark atmosphere age
There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.
latin vocabulary exception
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
flower maturity government
When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.
character quality genius
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.
trying quality fundamentals
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.
life kind great-men
There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.
war taken passion
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.
war brilliant outbreaks
The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.
giving age facts
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
literature france england
In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.
literature common french-literature
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
evil literature dubious
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
political france advertising
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.
drama mind literature
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.