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"You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures."

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About Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was an English modernist novelist, essayist, and critic. She is known for works such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and A Room of Ones Own. Her narrative experimentation strongly influenced 20th-century literature.

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