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... tell a story , but because he has a story to tell . The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause . Some series of events , or some development of charac- ter , will have presented itself to his imagination ...
... tell a story , but because he has a story to tell . The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause . Some series of events , or some development of charac- ter , will have presented itself to his imagination ...
Page 187
... tell much of his story in conversations , but he may only do so by putting such words into the mouths of his personages as persons so situated would probably use . He is not allowed for the sake of his tale to make his characters give ...
... tell much of his story in conversations , but he may only do so by putting such words into the mouths of his personages as persons so situated would probably use . He is not allowed for the sake of his tale to make his characters give ...
Page 188
... telling it , in a sort of impetuous breathless way , in your own person , when the people should tell it and act it for themselves . My notion always is , that when I have made the people to play out the play , it is , as it were ...
... telling it , in a sort of impetuous breathless way , in your own person , when the people should tell it and act it for themselves . My notion always is , that when I have made the people to play out the play , it is , as it were ...
Contents
The Impulse to Write | 3 |
The Ends and Uses of Poetry | 16 |
The Poets Nature | 26 |
Copyright | |
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action ANTHONY TROLLOPE artist beautiful become better character COLERIDGE composition creation criticism D. H. LAWRENCE delight dialogue E. M. Forster effect emotion excitement experience express extracts eyes fact fancy feelings fiction FORD MADOX FORD free verse genius give happened heart HENRY JAMES human idea imagination intellectual interest invent kind labour language less lines literary living look mankind matter meaning metre metrical mind modern moral nature never Nevermore novel novelist objects observed one's passions perhaps persons phrase pleasure plot poem poet poet's poetic poetry Preface prose reader reality rhyme rhythm rustic S. T. COLERIDGE scene seems sense Somerset Maugham soul sound stanza story style symbols T. S. ELIOT tell thee things THOMAS HARDY thou thought tion Tolstoi TROLLOPE true truth W. B. YEATS whole words Wordsworth write written