Passions of the Mind Author:A. S. Byatt In Passions of the Mind A.S. Byatt writes as an artist and scholar taking the reader on a journey of discovery as she explores the ideas, images and attitudes to language and underpinning some of her own fiction, and also the work of Great Victorians and a varied range of twentieth-century women writers. Fascinated by the coincidence of the symb... more »olic and real which she finds in her favourite writers - Robert Browning, George Eliot and Wallace Stevens - A.S. Byatt also celebrates this quality in the sun and shadows of Van Gogh's painting.« less