Identify the authors ...

Can you identify the authors of the following passages?

INSTRUCTIONS: Identify the author of EACH of the following passages, stating your reasons for associating it with that writer, using the spaces provided for your answer. (If you print this out, you can vary the length of space to make room for larger letters or longer answers!)

(1)

‘Sometimes thinking of Ireland it seems to me that I have been unnecessarily harsh. I have reproduced none of the attractions of the city for I have never felt at my ease in any city since I left it except in Paris. I have not reproduced its ingenuous insularity and its hospitality. The latter “virtue” so far as I can see does not exist elsewhere in Europe. I have not been just to its beauty: for it is more beautiful naturally in my opinon than what I have seen of England, Switzerland, France, Austria or Italy. Yet I know how useless these reflection are. For if I were to rewrite the book [...] I am sure I should find again what you call the Holy Ghost sitting in the ink-bottle and the perverse devil of my literary conscience sitting on the hump of my pen.’

Who wrote it? ____________________________

Now, state the reason why you think it is this author (e.g., theme, treatment, style, incidental marks of character):

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(2)

‘I believe that the renewal of belief which is the great movement of our time will more and more liberate the arts from “their age” and from life, and leave them more and more free to lose themselves in beauty, and to busy themselves, like all the great poetry of the past and like religions of all times, with old “faiths, myths, dreams” the accumulated beauty of the age. I believe that all will more and more reject the opinion that poetry is a “criticism of life” and be more and more convinced that it is a revelation of hidden life, and that they may even come to think “painting, poetry, and music” the only means of conversing with eternity left to man on earth.

Who wrote it? ____________________________

Now, state the reason why you think it is this author (e.g., theme, treatment, style, incidental marks of character):

(3)

‘The heart bursts about one night in seven (or, in the old saving clause, about one night in the seven I remember its having done so) and the pubic bone pain never quite stops its whispering and I have brief dissolving panic without ever working up to the dithers of the old days. I am quite convinc-ed, with that barren numb conviction of birth having sprung the trap, that at this rate it is only a matter of a few years before a hideous crisis compared to which the last was a cold in the nose and which I shall be as little fit to deal with as a bull calf with its castrators.’

Who wrote it? ____________________________

Now, state the reason why you think it is this author (e.g., theme, treatment, style, incidental marks of character):

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