Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey
Giles Lytton Stracheywas a British writer and critic...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth1 March 1880
Lytton Strachey quotes about
brilliant english-critic france francis government original strong vital
In France particularly, under the strong and brilliant government of Francis I, there was an outburst of original and vital writing.
bare business facts lay
It is not the historian's business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of the case, as he understands them . . . dispassionately, impartially and without ulterior motives.
englishmen
Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
biographies discretion
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
peculiar literature triumph
In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.
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.