Bennett makes his case for reading for the improvement of living.
So much ever unread.
-The Voice before the Void
“Serious Reading”
from How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
Arnold Bennett
Works and writers mentioned in the text:
Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Paradise Lost by John Milton
“On Poetry in General” from Lectures on the English Poets by William Hazlitt
George Eliot
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Anne Brontë
Jane Austen
Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
First Principles by Herbert Spencer
John Keats
Works and writers mentioned in the discussion:
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Virginia Woolf
Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
E.E. Cummings
W.H. Auden
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Ezra Pound
Gertrude Stein
Stephen Crane