Volume 29, Number 4 · March 18, 1982
The World of the Pied Piper
By Alison Lurie
Kate Greenaway: A Biography
by Rodney Engen
Schocken Books, 240 pp., $29.95
One of the gifts an artist may have is the ability to create what Tolkien called a 'secondary world'—a fully imagined alternate universe, as consistent as our own, or possibly more so. Such a secondary world may make visible some aspect of the primary one, so that once we have seen, for instance, a landscape by Corot, a play by Chekhov, or a film by Chaplin, we will find echoes of it ever after.
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