The Hills of Home
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The man himself did not know. When he tries to tell us, he attempts what is be- yond the reach of his own real knowledge. He looked back on the nearest stepping- stones which only had led him over thelast brook he had crossed in his pilgrimage; but he forgot the heart-seeking voice of the bugles in the dark, up on the magic Castle- rock, encrusted with memories of the old struggles of the makers of Edinburgh, the haunting shadows of the midnight streets, the lone peaks that had looked at him th...rough the grey mist, the running waters "5 THE HILLS OF HOME in the hills that had broken in upon him in the wakeful intervals of his sleeping, the cry of the winds on the grey crags of Kirk Yet- ton, the honeysuckle and the rose-leaves tost at his feet over the dyke of the garden at Swanston. Ay, and the shadows of the fathers of his race, who had struggled in border foray and in conflicts with the sea. Stevenson was, and still is, largely and widely misunderstood by certain stupid people of whom and of whose kind there are always plenty in the world ready to take an author absolutely literally at his word; and so, reading Stevenson's state- ments as to the books and authors that in- fluenced him in the reminiscences of his wide reading, are prematurely ready to ac- cept him as having been, for the mostpart, as he puts it, "the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Mon- taigne, to Baudelaire, and to Obermann.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The man himself did not know. When he tries to tell us, he attempts what is be- yond the reach of his own real knowledge. He looked back on the nearest stepping- stones which only had led him over thelast brook he had crossed in his pilgrimage; but he forgot the heart-seeking voice of the bugles in the dark, up on the magic Castle- rock, encrusted with memories of the old struggles of the makers of Edinburgh, the haunting shadows of the midnight streets, the lone peaks that had looked at him th...rough the grey mist, the running waters "5 THE HILLS OF HOME in the hills that had broken in upon him in the wakeful intervals of his sleeping, the cry of the winds on the grey crags of Kirk Yet- ton, the honeysuckle and the rose-leaves tost at his feet over the dyke of the garden at Swanston. Ay, and the shadows of the fathers of his race, who had struggled in border foray and in conflicts with the sea. Stevenson was, and still is, largely and widely misunderstood by certain stupid people of whom and of whose kind there are always plenty in the world ready to take an author absolutely literally at his word; and so, reading Stevenson's state- ments as to the books and authors that in- fluenced him in the reminiscences of his wide reading, are prematurely ready to ac- cept him as having been, for the mostpart, as he puts it, "the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Mon- taigne, to Baudelaire, and to Obermann.
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