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In Search of Havelock Ellis
Troy, William | December 11, 1935 issue

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The article focuses on the book "From Rousseau to Proust," by Havelock Ellis. These articles, reviews, and prefaces written over a period of thirty years show that even in the realm of literary criticism Ellis is unwilling to relinquish his role of philosopher of love. Eschewing any sort of rigorous intellectual approach, he finds his model in the type of "appreciation" developed by essayist Walter Pater and vulgarized by his followers in the nineties. The principal advantage of this forth, of course, is that it permits the critic to express what is actually an emotional sympathy with his subject beneath the appearance of considerable erudition and a certain-amount of diffuse analysis.

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FROM Rousseau to Proust (Book); ELLIS, Havelock, 1859-1939; CRITICISM; LITERATURE; LOVE; PRAISE
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