Talks on Writing English (Illustrated)

(How is skill in composition to be gained? The general pri...)

How is skill in composition to be gained? The general principle is as simple as the details of the craft are complicated. The way to write is to write. Perhaps the most exact image of the process is that of piano-playing. Just as one acquires skill in the use of the piano by innumerable exercises and continual practice, so one attains to mastery in written language only by writing and writing and writing. It is necessary to compose and recompose; to write all sorts of things, to prune them, recast them, polish them; to elaborate and to simplify; to weigh each word and phrase; and when all is done to destroy the result as ruthlessly as we would destroy anything else which has become rubbish by outliving its usefulness.

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Prince Vance The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box

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A Book o' Nine Tales.

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A Wheel of Fire (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Wheel of Fire Miss Wainwright's cousin, who was visiting her, had incurred the housekeeper's deep displeasure by openly laughing to scorn Hannah's announcement Of her intention to play the chaperone, and it may have been the memory Of this scoff which imparted to Mrs. Stearns' aspect SO unusual a severity. The great collie, Wallace, who was asleep in a window-seat cushioned for his especial comfort, would now and then give a snore so loud that it awoke him; whereupon he would sit upright, casting a glance of deepest reproach across the wide, low room at his mistress and the lawyer, as if to indicate his indignant surprise that any one could be guilty of so great a breach of good breeding. For a moment the air Of superior virtuousness would be maintained, and then the handsome head would somehow droop until the dog was again at a hunt in dreamland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The Pagans

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Talks on the study of literature. by Arlo Bates

(Talks on the study of literature., by Arlo Bates This vol...)

Talks on the study of literature., by Arlo Bates This volume is made up from a course of lectures delivered under the auspices of the Lowell Institute in the autumn of 1895. These have been revised and to some extent rewritten, and the division into chapters made; but there has been no essential change. CONTENTS 1. What Literature Is 2. Literary Expression 3. The Study of Literature 4. Why we Study Literature 5. False Methods 6. Methods of Study 7. The Language of Literature 8. The Intangible Language 9. The Classics 10. The Value of the Classics 11. The Greater Classics 12. Contemporary Literature 13. New Books and Old 14. Fiction 15. Fiction and Life 16. Poetry 17. The Texture of Poetry 18. Poetry and Life 1. WHAT LITERATURE IS As all life proceeds from the egg, so all discussion must proceed from a definition. Indeed, it is generally necessary to follow definition by definition, fixing the meaning of the terms used in the original explanation, and again explaining the words employed in this exposition. I once heard a learned but somewhat pedantic man begin to answer the question of a child by saying that a lynx is a wild quadruped. He was allowed to get no further, but was at once asked what a quadruped is. He responded that it is a mammal with four feet. This of course provoked the inquiry what a mammal is; and so on from one question to another, until the original subject was entirely lost sight of, and the lynx disappeared in a maze of verbal distinctions as completely as it might have vanished in the tangles of the forest primeval. I feel that I am not wholly safe from danger of repeating the experience of this well-meaning pedant if I attempt to give a definition of literature. The temptation is strong to content myself with saying: "Of course we all know what literature is." The difficulty which I have had in the endeavor to frame a satisfactory explanation of the term has convinced me, however, that it is necessary to assume that few of us do know, and has impressed upon me the need of trying to make clear what the word means to me. If my statement seem insufficient for general application, it will at least show the sense which I shall give to "literature" in these talks. In its most extended signification literature of course might be taken to include whatever is written or printed; but our concern is with that portion only which is indicated by the name "polite literature," or by the imported term "belles-lettres,"—both antiquated though respectable phrases. In other words, I wish to confine my examination to those written works which can properly be brought within the scope of literature as one of the fine arts.

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The Diary of a Saint (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Diary of a Saint January 1. How beautiful the world is! I might go on to say, and how commonplace this seems writ ten down in a diary but it is the thing I have been thinking. I have been standing ever so long at the window, and now that the curtains are shut I can see everything still. The moon is shining over the wide White sheets of snow, and the low meadows look far off and enchanted. The outline of the hills is clear against the sky, and the cedars on the lawn are almost green against the whiteness of the ground and the deep, blue-black sky. It is all so lovely that it some how makes one feel happy and humble both at once. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The Philistines

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The Intoxicated Ghost and other stories

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