I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit


The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929 (ed. Viking Adult, 1993)


I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his...

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his...

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his...

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his...