 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 —...  American Prose (1607-1865) - Page 686edited by - 1916 - 737 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Bliss Perry - 1920 - 446 pages
...are no external or extrinsic influences — resulting from weariness or interruption. " A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he...then invents such incidents, — he then combines snch events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence... | |
 | Edith Birkhead - 1921 - 262 pages
...he set before the writer of short stories : " A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale . . . having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain...sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, he has failed in the first step. In the whole composition there should be no word written of which... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1921 - 436 pages
...control. There are no external or extfthsic influences— resulting from weariness or interruption. A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale....care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought cut, Ke then invents such incidents — he then combines such events as may best. aid him in establishing... | |
 | 1922 - 326 pages
...RICHARDSON Professor Sherman in his introduction to A Book of Short Stories quotes with approval from Poe: A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale....aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. If hia very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first... | |
 | Thomas Ernest Rankin, Wilford Merton Aikin - 1922 - 336 pages
...ideas, and is perpetually quoted. Its leading idea is contained in the following paragraph : A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he...certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he invents such incidents, — he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived... | |
 | Thomas H. Uzzell, Camelia Waite Uzzell, Walter B. Pitkin - 1923 - 512 pages
...ensuring the full power of the single artistic effect. Edgar Allan Poe's Historic Analysis A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he...preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence tends not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1923 - 410 pages
...There are no external or extrinsic influences — resulting from weariness or interruption. A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he...then invents such incidents — he then combines such effects as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. If his very initial sentence... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1923 - 456 pages
...in American literary criticism has been quoted so often as the following extract from this review: 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.... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1923 - 408 pages
...There are no external or extrinsic influences — resulting from weariness or interruption. A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he...conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect1 to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such effects as may... | |
 | George Burton Hotchkiss - 1924 - 512 pages
...of perusal, the soul of the reader is at the writer's control." He then goes on to say; "A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he...to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing his preconceived effect. If his very... | |
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