Date: 1911
"As for Mr. Woodhouse, whose most famous sentences hang like texts in frames on the four walls of our memories, he is, next to Don Quixote, perhaps the most perfect gentleman in fiction; and under outrageous provocation he remains so."
preview | full record— Bradley, A.C. (1851-1935)
Date: 1919
"I never cease to interest myself in the Gothic architecture of my own fantastic soul."
preview | full record— Cummings, Bruce Frederick [pseud. W. N. P. Barbellion] (1889-1919)
Date: 1940
"The provinces of his body revolted, / The squares of his mind were empty, / Silence invaded the suburbs, / The current of his feeling failed; he became his admirers."
preview | full record— Auden, W. H. (1907-1973)