![]() That such fancies are only fancies, that this “becoming an Elizabethan”, this reading sixteenth-century writing as currently and certainly as we read our own is an illusion, is no doubt true. There are few greater delights than to go back three or four hundred years and become in fancy at least an Elizabethan. Lord Chesterfield’s Letters To His Son Two Parsons ![]() ![]() Some are now published for the first time. For permission to reprint two of them I have to thank the Oxford University Press and Mr. Most of the following papers have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Life and Letters, The Nation, Vogue, The New York Herald, The Yale Review, and Figaro. I rejoice to concur with the common reader for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be generally decided all claim to poetical honours.”–DR. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this file. This eBook was produced by: Don Lainson laws are changing all over the world. More on Encyclopædia Britannica The Common Reader Second Series by Virginia Woolf ![]() In ‘The Common Reader Second Series’ Virginia Woolf continued writing essays on reading and writing, women and history, and class and politics for the rest of her life. ![]()
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