The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... writing . Though prose cannot make use of those external aids to beauty , the meter and rime of poetry , it has in common with its sister art rhythm and harmony of phrasing . The artist , whether in prose or poetry , has but the ...
... writing . Though prose cannot make use of those external aids to beauty , the meter and rime of poetry , it has in common with its sister art rhythm and harmony of phrasing . The artist , whether in prose or poetry , has but the ...
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... writer must fashion his own pat- tern as directed by his subject matter and the working of his mind upon it . Without restricting the thought- process in any way , never molding his ideas to fit some desired form of expression , the ...
... writer must fashion his own pat- tern as directed by his subject matter and the working of his mind upon it . Without restricting the thought- process in any way , never molding his ideas to fit some desired form of expression , the ...
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... writers as New- man and Stevenson . By study we do not mean imi- tation , for while it is very easy for the young writer to cease to be himself in his writing , it is not so easy for him to become a Newman or a Stevenson . There is a ...
... writers as New- man and Stevenson . By study we do not mean imi- tation , for while it is very easy for the young writer to cease to be himself in his writing , it is not so easy for him to become a Newman or a Stevenson . There is a ...
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... writing , almost invariably strips his soul of all disguises and lets the world see it as it is . Style is no more the manifestation of the man himself in writing than it is in anything else which he does , except , perhaps , that the ...
... writing , almost invariably strips his soul of all disguises and lets the world see it as it is . Style is no more the manifestation of the man himself in writing than it is in anything else which he does , except , perhaps , that the ...
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... writing has body and soul , and yet no two compositions are the same . Shall we rebel against the difficulty , or shall we simply admit it and rejoice at the charm of variety ? No matter how inspired a writer may be and no mat- ter how ...
... writing has body and soul , and yet no two compositions are the same . Shall we rebel against the difficulty , or shall we simply admit it and rejoice at the charm of variety ? No matter how inspired a writer may be and no mat- ter how ...
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