To me his (Edgar Allan Poe's) prose is unreadable - like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The text harshly critiques Jane Austen's prose, claiming it is unreadable compared to Poe's.
- In plain terms
- Someone says Austen's writing is bad.
- What can you take from it?
- Literary taste is subjective.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Whose criticism matters to you?
- How do you judge books?
Another view
It attributes the quote to Austen herself, which is factually odd.
More from Jane Austen
Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
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