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On the Art of Reading

by Arthur Quiller-Couch

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Delivered from the Cambridge lectern in the years around 1920, these lectures are Arthur Quiller-Couch's argument for how literature ought to be met and taught. Writing as the critic known simply as Q, he insists that reading is an art to be practiced with pleasure and attention, not a science to be dissected, and he presses for teaching that treats great books as living things rather than exam fodder. A companion to his earlier On the Art of Writing, the talks range over poetry, the Bible as English prose, children's reading, and the slow shaping of taste. His warmth and plain good sense still make the case better than most modern manuals.

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Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) was a Cornish novelist, critic, and Cambridge professor who wrote under the initial Q. He edited the influential Oxford Book of English Verse and shaped generations of readers through his lectures on writing and reading.

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First published
1920
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
196
Language
English
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PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
David Wales