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... TOLSTOI : Talks with Tolstoi Don't let anyone persuade you there are plenty of ignorant and fatuous duffers to try to do it - that strenuous selec- tion and comparison are not the very essence of art , and that Form is ( not ) substance ...
... TOLSTOI : Talks with Tolstoi Don't let anyone persuade you there are plenty of ignorant and fatuous duffers to try to do it - that strenuous selec- tion and comparison are not the very essence of art , and that Form is ( not ) substance ...
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... TOLSTOI EXASPERATED Tolstoi spoke on 28th August ( 1904 ) with exasperation about writing as a profession . I have rarely seen him so agitated . He said : ' One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's flesh in the ink - pot ...
... TOLSTOI EXASPERATED Tolstoi spoke on 28th August ( 1904 ) with exasperation about writing as a profession . I have rarely seen him so agitated . He said : ' One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's flesh in the ink - pot ...
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... Tolstoi : Goldenweizer , 147 , 228 , 232 Tess of the D'Urbervilles , Preface : Hardy , 124 The Ambassadors : Henry James , 170 , 211 The Art of Writing : R. L. Stevenson , 206 The Common Reader : Woolf , 129 The Counterfeiters : Gide ...
... Tolstoi : Goldenweizer , 147 , 228 , 232 Tess of the D'Urbervilles , Preface : Hardy , 124 The Ambassadors : Henry James , 170 , 211 The Art of Writing : R. L. Stevenson , 206 The Common Reader : Woolf , 129 The Counterfeiters : Gide ...
Contents
The Impulse to Write | 15 |
THE ENDS AND USES OF POETRY | 25 |
American Poet | 50 |
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action ANDRÉ GIDE ANTHONY TROLLOPE artist beautiful better called character COLERIDGE composition creation D. H. Lawrence delight dialogue E. M. FORSTER effect emotion everything excitement experience express eyes fact fancy feel fiction FLAUBERT FORD MADOX FORD free verse genius give happens heart HENRY JAMES human idea imagination interest invent kind knowledge labour language less light lines literary living look matter means metre metrical MICHIGAN mind modern moral nature never novel novelist objects observed once one's passions perhaps persons phrase pleasure plot poem poet poet's poetic truth poetry practitioner pre-assumptions Preface present prose reader reality relevant rhyme rhythm S. T. COLERIDGE scene seems sense soul story style symbols T. S. ELIOT taste tell things THOMAS HARDY thou thought tion Tolstoi true W. B. YEATS whole words write written