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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“The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.”
—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.”
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“A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.”
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