Selections from West's work which show what a talented intelligent writer she was. Her long essay on St. Augustine was an especially intelligent examination into the life of the Bishop of Hippo.. She ascribes to his nature the creation of the archetype Western man ; someone who "gave his authority to man's desire for guilt and punishment, for cruelty and suffering." quoting (Hynes, Samuel, Introduction - In Communion with Reality), "Rebecca West: A Celebration - Selected from her Writings", Macmillan 1977

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