The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies is a collection of essays by Canadian novelist and journalist Robertson Davies. The collection was edited by Judith Skelton Grant and published by McClelland and Stewart in 1979.
The collection brings together 92 articles, reviews and autobiographical essays that Davies had previously published in newspapers and magazines, covering a wide variety of topics.
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“If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)
“It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“And as the sun above the light doth bring,
Though we behold it in the air below,
So from th’ eternal Light the soul doth spring,
Though in the body she her powers do show.”
—Sir John Davies (1569–1626)