Lytton Strachey livre Landmarks in French Literature
Landmarks in French Literature (1912), ch. 4.
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Lytton Strachey: Citations en anglais
Gerald Brenan "Bloomsbury in Spain and England", in S. P. Rosenbaum (ed.) The Bloomsbury Group (1995) p. 347.
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“If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.”
Reported in Michael Holroyd Lytton Strachey (1967-68) Vol. 2, part 2, ch. 6.
Said on his deathbed.
“Madame, I am the civilization they are fighting for.”
Supposedly said by Strachey in response to a woman who demanded he "fight for civilization" in World War One.
Misattributed
Walter Raleigh, letter to Lytton Strachey, May 8, 1918. Published in The Letters of Walter Raleigh (1879-1922) (1926) Vol. 2, p. 479.
Criticism
George Lyttelton, letter to Rupert Hart-Davis, October 23, 1957, in The Lyttelton Hart-Davis Letters Vols. 1 & 2 (1985) p. 374. ISBN 0719542464.
Criticism
Lytton Strachey livre Eminent Victorians
Preface.
Eminent Victorians (1918)
Reported in Robert Graves Good-bye to All That (1929), ch. 23.
Said during the First World War to a military tribunal assessing his claim to be treated as a conscientious objector. Variants along the lines of "I should try to interpose my body" are also sometimes quoted.
Lytton Strachey livre Eminent Victorians
Preface.
Eminent Victorians (1918)
Hugh Kingsmill The Progress of a Biographer (1949) p. 7.
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