To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf From the Foreword – To the Lighthouse is at once ethereal and firm, as perhaps only a vision can be. A presiding presence with streaming hair and muscles stretched, the novels conception has the strength of a Blake Angel. It is an exertion, a vaunting, a triumph of wonder, of imaginative speculation and defiance: it is that bolt of lightning Virginia Woolf began with, an instantaneous burst of coherence over chaos and the dark. She has shown us the shape of the human spirit. Eudora Welty
From the Foreword – To the Lighthouse is at once ethereal and firm, as perhaps only a vision can be. A presiding presence with streaming hair and muscles stretched, the novels conception has the strength of a Blake Angel. It is an exertion, a vaunting, a triumph of wonder, of imaginative speculation and defiance: it is that bolt of lightning Virginia Woolf began with, an instantaneous burst of coherence over chaos and the dark. She has shown us the shape of the human spirit. Eudora Welty