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Jane Austen on 2008-10-01
- Anyone who has had the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.
  
  —Virginia Woolf
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- - a handbreadth
  - in her lifetime
  - Austen's "first author cited" words fall mainly into two categories: (1) a few words denoting domestic items, such as door-bell and sponge-cake; (2) a great many words that are regular derivatives of existing English words and therefore not necessarily new at the time of "first use" at all — they are simply word forms that are within the productive vocabulary of any accomplished native speaker and that rise to consciousness when there is a need for them: words like in-between, smarten up, spoilt (as an adjective), sympathizer, and unfastidious (all of which make their first appearance in Emma, which we're reading now). We think it is this class of words that is revealing about Austen as a writer: she didn't so much push the boundaries of English as fill in some of its empty corners in writing, confidently placing the right word in the place where it belonged, even if no one had done it before.
  - expert use of dialogue
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The most provocative, poetic and influential playwright of his generation | Culture | guardian.co.uk

English literature Harold Pinter

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- dramatist
- political polemicist
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- - dramatic poetry
  - artistic leanings
  - imaginary friends
  - palpable fear
  - sexual desperation
  - everything could end tomorrow
  - Elizabeth Bowen's The Heat of the Da
  - intellectually voracious
  - characteristic independence
  - suspicion of authority
  - call-up papers for National Service
  - conscientious objector
  - truculent independence
  - epitomised Pinter's nonconformity
  - early determination
  - strenuous double-life
  - aspiring actor
  - weekly rep circuit
  - closet writer
  - insidious pressures
  - artfully blends comedy and menace
  - glowing encomium
  - deeply political
  - strangely unresolved
  - inherited ideas
  - often bracketed with Absurdists like Beckett and Ionesco
  - model citizens
  - thunderstorm tension
  - In all the games of hunt-the-symbol
  - universal need for pipe-dreams
  - deeply humane play
  - shifting alliances
  - decisive shift
  - external gentility
  - a cryptic feminist
  - constantly pit male weakness and insecurity against female strength and survival
  - screenwriting
  - a kindred spirit
  - unmistakeable imprint
  - marital solitude
  - European idea of the writer as a committed figure free to speak out on public affairs
  - It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening, it wasn't happening. It didn't matter. It was of no interest.
  - ornate verbal appendage
  - innate capacity for friendship
  - iron loyalty
  - meticulous precision
  - literary accomplishments
  - rep and touring theatre