| Synopsis: |
'From reading this book, it would have been no surprise to learn that this hardworking, clean-living young man became a general or statesman or biographer. It is, rather, a surprise that he became a poet, for this is no portrait of the artist as a young man. There is no spiritual or emotional struggle - no burning desires, no humiliating defeats, no elations, jealousies, illusions. Rather, this is a portrait of a mind expanding' - Barbara Fisher Williamson, "New York Times Book Review". |