Language and Creative IllusionExamines the creative process in writing, from the ideas and designs of composition to the business of fixing a text on paper. Two themes run throughout the text: one concerns the action of the mind in the creative process; the other concerns the editorial phase of composition. |
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Page 86
... Stanza's wrote in a Country Churchyard - indicates a choice of verse - form . The ' Stanza's ' were to be quatrains , a prosodic equivalent , as Gray appears to have seen it , to the elegiac measures of the classical poets . But Latin ...
... Stanza's wrote in a Country Churchyard - indicates a choice of verse - form . The ' Stanza's ' were to be quatrains , a prosodic equivalent , as Gray appears to have seen it , to the elegiac measures of the classical poets . But Latin ...
Page 90
... stanza repeat the grammetric pattern of the last two lines of the preceding quatrain ; there are two coordinated clauses , each occupying a line , a & b . But the third line of this stanza is grammatically dependent on the second , and ...
... stanza repeat the grammetric pattern of the last two lines of the preceding quatrain ; there are two coordinated clauses , each occupying a line , a & b . But the third line of this stanza is grammatically dependent on the second , and ...
Page 91
... stanza , and both of those ' saves ' are depend- ent on ' a solemn stillness holds ' . The ensuing complex construction begins with an Adverbial , ' from yonder ivy - mantled tower ' , in the first line ; proceeds in the second line to ...
... stanza , and both of those ' saves ' are depend- ent on ' a solemn stillness holds ' . The ensuing complex construction begins with an Adverbial , ' from yonder ivy - mantled tower ' , in the first line ; proceeds in the second line to ...
Contents
ON WRITING FOR READINGS SAKE | 15 |
SPEECH IN WRITING | 28 |
LUDUS LITTERARIUS OR GAMES WRITERS | 43 |
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