A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents... The Spirit of American Literature - Page 146by John Albert Macy - 1913 - 347 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell - 1850 - 642 pages
...control. There are no external or extrinsic influences — resulting from weariness or interruption. A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale....conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single tfect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events as may best... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1857 - 628 pages
...influences — resulting from weariness or interruption. A skilful literary artist has constructed a talc. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate...deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to bo wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events as may best nid hini... | |
| 1899 - 978 pages
...incidents. In all these stories Poe was demonstrating the soundness of the principle that a writer " having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, . . . combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. ... In the... | |
| 1920 - 706 pages
...emphasize and then discarded everything which did not draw attention to that point. He himself wrote : "Having conceived with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he (the artist) then invests such incidents, he then combines such events, as may best aid him in establishing... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...control. There are no external or extrinsic influences—resulting from weariness or interruption. A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale....single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents—he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect... | |
| 1906 - 554 pages
...literary genre. Poe, in his criticism of Hawthorne's stories, avers that the writer of tales conceives with deliberate care a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, and then invents such incidents as may best aid him in establishing the preconceived effect. Now, a... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1901 - 410 pages
...incidents. In all these stories, Foe was demonstrating the soundness of the principle that a writer "having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out . . . combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. ... In the... | |
| 1906 - 740 pages
...analyzed by intellectual means. In his well-known review of Hawthorne's "Tales," Poe expressly stated that "having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, [the skilful writer of short stories] then invents such incidents- — he then combines such events... | |
| Charles Madison Curry - 1903 - 572 pages
...a very clear statement of this principle in his review of Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales: "A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he...care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing... | |
| 1903 - 848 pages
...reading. His principles inhibited the novel altogether, if artistic perfection were the goal sought. "Having conceived with deliberate care a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he [the author] then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect.... | |
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