Virginia Woolf's ?cotton wool of daily life?

Abstract

irginia Woolf's prose has frequently been called poetic, a description that alludes to the rhythm and sound of her sentences, the lyric plotlessness of her novels, and the self-conscious interiority of her characters. Woolf's friend, E.M. Forster, once claimed that Woolf's problem was that she should have been a poet, not a novelist.3 But poetic is a term that invites question, largely because it suggests that Woolf does not tackle the pedestrian world of ordinary life, or that her novels disdain prosaic subjects. While Woolf sought to remove the heavy furniture of the realist and naturalist novel in order to render the inner workings of the mind ? the atoms as they fall upon the mind

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