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