Personal Pleasures: Essays on Enjoying Life
Macaulay catalogues bed, hot baths, disbelieving and taking umbrage as pleasures worth defending, in 1930s essays by a novelist far better known for her ironies.
Macaulay catalogues the small pleasures of being alive, among them bed, hot baths, disbelieving, taking umbrage and listening in, in short essays of great charm and occasional acid. Written in the 1930s and long out of print, it is a defence of enjoyment by a novelist far better known for her ironies.
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Rose Macaulay (August 1, 1881–October 30, 1958) channels this ecstatic relief with great charm and poetic passion in a piece from Personal Pleasures: Essays on Enjoying Life (public library) — her 1935 collection of reflections kindred to, and a century ahead of, poet Ross Gay’s wonderful Book of Delights.
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