Talents and Geniuses: The Pleasures of Appreciation
By Gilbert HighetExcerpt from Talents and Geniuses: The Pleasures of Appreciation This is a new selection from the discussions of literature and the other arts which I have been broadcasting during the past five years or so. (every Tuesday evening at from Station wqxr in New York City: other places, other times, from coast to coast. These essays are not merely transcriptions, but have been revised and partly rewritten for this book. Two earlier volumes have appeared: People, Places, and Books in 1953, and A Clerk of Oxenford in 1954, both published by the Oxford University Press in New York. These books and the weekly broadcasts have brought me a huge mass of correspondence from friendly readers and listeners. I hope that this fresh collection will not disappoint them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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