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Essays in the Art of Writing
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Essays in the Art of Writing
Robert Louis Stevenson
I must therefore warn that well-known character, the general reader, that I am here embarked upon a most distasteful business: taking down the picture from the wall and looking on the back; and, like the inquiring child, pulling the musical cart to pieces. 1. Choice of Words.-The art of literature stands apart from among its sisters, because the material in which the literary artist works is the dialect of life; hence, on the one hand, a strange freshness and immediacy of address to the public mind, which is ready prepared to understand it; but hence, on the other, a singular limitation. The sister arts enjoy the use of a plastic and ductile material, like the modeller's clay; literature alone is condemned to work in mosaic with finite and quite rigid words. You have seen these blocks, dear to the nursery: this one a pillar, that a pediment, a third a window or a vase.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 16, 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9781544619736 |
Publishers | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
Pages | 58 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 3 mm · 90 g |
Language | English |
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