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WRITERS > biographer, critic > Lytton Strachey
Ignorance is the...
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian --ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Source: Eminent Victorians, Preface, 1918.
-- Lytton Strachey, (Mar 1 1880-1932), English biographer, critic; He opened a new era of biographical writing by adopting an irreverent attitude to the past, especially to the volumes of Victorian biography.