I agree with Woolf here about first impressions, but have always found it useful with any work of art to analyse why I like or dislike a certain work.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Virginia Woolf Diary: 13 September, 1922
"Having written this, L. put into my hands a very intelligent review
of Ulysses, in the American Nation; which, for the first time,
analyses the meaning; & certainly makes it very much more impressive
than I judged. Still I think there is virtue & some lasting truth in
first impressions; so I don't cancell (sic) mine. I must read some of
the chapters again. Probably the final beauty of writing is never felt
by contemporaries; but they ought, I think, to be bowled over; & this
I was not".
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