In his comprehensive delight in all experience Dickens resembles Walt Whitman, but he was innocent of that nebulous transcendental...ism that blurred Whitman's universe into vast misty panoramas and left him, for all his huge democratic vistas, unable to tell a story or paint a single concrete human being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern h...ighway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of all reformers Mr. Sentiment is the most powerful. It is incredible the number of evil practices he has put down: it is to be fe...ared he will soon lack subjects, and that when he has made the working classes comfortable, and got bitter beer into proper-sized pint bottles, there will be nothing left for him to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would ...have eloped with him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »