Essays In The Art Of Writing - 9781544619736

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.

• | Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Mar 16, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 58 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1544619731
• | ISBN-13: 9781544619736