Joseph Wood 'Taxonomy and Grace'

Hi Pia, spotted it today flagged up on Arts & Letters Daily.com. Yes, the essay is an individual perspective on writing and critique, valid as anyone else's :-) I agree, on occasion what we give to or get from a piece is intensely personal to our own experience. eg: as a reader, I came to Jane Eyre as a six year old and focussed on the sense of injustice to the child, as a ten year old, focussed on the flight over the moors, as a teenager, the romantic aspect, as first year lit, victorian stereotypy/archetypes etc etc. Each time we read a piece, I feel it is possible to derive pleasure from some or all of its varied aspects, turning new or unexpected corners. xx