...years had been a great reader and devotee of Bunyan and Spenser, the great masters of allegory. But it is apt to spoil two good things — a story and a moral, a meaning and a form ; and tho tasto for it is responsible for a large part of the forcible- feeble...

...years had been a great reader and devotee of Bunyan and Spenser, the great masters of allegory. But it is apt to spoil two good things — a story and a moral, a meaning and a form; and the taste for it is responsible for a large part of the forcible-feeble writing...

...years had been a great reader and devotee of Bunyan and Spenser, the great masters of allegory. But it is apt to spoil two good things — a story and a moral, a meaning and a form; and the taste for it is responsible for a large part of the forcible-feeble writing...

...Henry James's opinion of allegory as 'quite one of the lighter exercises of the imagination', that is 'apt to spoil two good things — a story and a moral, a meaning and a form' (ibid., p. 309). 36. Cited in Jorge Luis Borges, Other Inquisitions (London,...

...Noveb of EM Forster"] This is a truth expressed by Henry James in his book about Hawthorne: "Allegory is apt to spoil two good things, a story and a moral." 164 Among these collections of Virginia Woolf 's essays there is no account of either Joyce or Lawrence...

...allegory: that he abused his naturally rare gift of imagination by declining to grapple with reality, which is the proper material for the imagination, but allowing...Pilgrim's Progress" to modern religion, Hawthorne seldom uses out-and-out allegory; but rather a more or less definite symbolism. Even in his full-length romances,...