Learning to Write XXVI

20th April 2007 with 1 Comment

Every would-be writer in English has read the following passage from Edgar Allan Poe. Or they have read one of the many reinterpretations of it since it was first penned in the 1840s.
A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents but having [...]

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This new affair must be a golden vessel, filled with the purest distillation of the actual; and oh how it worries me, the shaping of the vase, the hammering of the metal! I have to hammer it so fine, so smooth . . . And all the while I have to be so careful not to let a drop of the liquor escape! Henry James

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