Eric Gill | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis & critique of Eric Gill.

Eric Gill | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis & critique of Eric Gill.
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SOURCE: A review of 'A Holy Tradition of Working: Passages from the Writings of Eric Gill', edited by Brian Keeble, Parabola, Vol. IX, No. 2, April, 1984, pp. 102-4.

In the following essay, Remde describes Gill as a flawedand thus deeply humanwriter.

This extraordinary book [A> Holy Tradition of Working: Passages from the Writings of Eric Gill] is a selection of Eric Gill's writings representing his thought over a period of many years. That the book may be called extraordinary is due to man's present situation. In a normal (traditional) society, i.e., a society in which human actions conform to spiritual needs, this book would not have been written; Gill would be an ordinary man. But all around us, now as in Gill's lifetime, an empty knowledge accumulates—empty not in itself, but in the way that we receive it.

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