Granite and Rainbow Essays

"The essays, of course, are the heart of the book. For one thing, she is back in invited company--Sterne, Defoe, Jane Austen, Peacock, and the old cronies...That beautiful mind! That was the thing. Lucid, passionate, independent, acute, proudly and incessantly nourished, eccentric for honorable reasons, sensitive for every reason, it has marked us forever. Hers was a sensitivity beside which a Geiger counter is a child's toy make of a couple of tin cans and a rather common piece of string. Allow it its blind spots, for it could detect pure gold. It could detect purity. In the presence of poetic fire it sent out showers of sparks of its own. It was a mind like some marvelous enchanter's instrument that her beloved Elizabethans might have got rumor of and written poems about."Woolf, Virginia is the author of 'Granite and Rainbow Essays' with ISBN 9780156364751 and ISBN 0156364751.