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Pygmalion author george bernard5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The article, being libelous, had to be returned as impossible and I had to renounce my dream of dragging its author into the limelight. When it arrived, it contained nothing but a savagely derisive attack on a professor of language and literature whose chair Sweet regarded as proper to a phonetic expert only. Once, in the days when the Imperial Institute rose in South Kensington, and Joseph Chamberlain was booming the Empire, I induced the editor of a leading monthly review to commission an article from Sweet on the imperial importance of his subject. ![]() ![]() These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. ![]() Ion, and perhaps enabled him to popularize his subject, but for his Satanic contempt for all academic dignitaries and persons in general who thought more of Greek than of phonetics. Pygmalion essays are academic essays for citation. ![]()
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