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Julien Green

Author

Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters

"If you think from this prelude that anything like a romance is preparing for you, reader, you never were more mistaken. Do you anticipate sentiment and poetry and reverie? Do you expect passion and stimulus and melodrama? Calm your expectations: red [...]

William Blake. Prophet

How define Blake? Language is a poor thing and the words it offers us have been used on too many people. One is tempted therefore to speak of him in a symbolic fashion and to say that he was a demon, or an angel, or a sort of divinity. It is as if he [...]