No man ever encouraged his characters so much as Dickens… . The children of his fancy are spoilt children. They shake the house like heavy and shouting schoolboys; they smash the story to pieces like so much furniture… . When we experience the ungovernable sense of life which goes along with the old Dickens sense of liberty, we experience the best of the revolution. We are filled with the first of all democratic doctrines, that all men are interesting.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
The artful Dickens by Alexandra Mullen - The New Criterion
Great quote. Chesterton on Dickens:
