The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
Robertson Davies Quotes
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
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| Birth: | 28th August, 1913 |
| Death: | 2nd December, 1995 |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Profession: | Critic, Journalist, Novelist, Professor, Playwriter |
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William Robertson Davies was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself and to have detested.
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