The Art of the Short StoryC. Scribner's sons, 1913 - 321 páginas |
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Página 308 - Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Página 306 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou...
Página 306 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning — little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door, Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.
Página 301 - When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world...
Página 297 - Crusoe (demanding no unity) this limit may be advantageously overpassed, it can never properly be overpassed in a poem.
Página 296 - It is my design to render it manifest that no one point in its composition is referable either to accident or intuition ; that the work proceeded, step by step, to its completion with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem.
Página 300 - ... considerations inevitably led me to the long o as the most sonorous vowel in connection with r as the most producible consonant. The sound of the refrain being thus determined, it became necessary to select a word embodying this sound, and at the same time in the fullest possible keeping with that melancholy which I had predetermined as the tone of the poem. In such a search it would have been absolutely impossible to overlook the word
Página 308 - Two things are invariably required: first, some amount of complexity, or more properly, adaptation ; and, secondly, some amount of suggestiveness, some undercurrent, however indefinite, of meaning. It is this latter, in especial, which imparts to a work of art so much of that richness (to borrow from colloquy a forcible term) which we are too fond of confounding with the ideal.
Página 297 - ... a certain degree of duration is absolutely requisite for the production of any effect at all. Holding in view these considerations, as well as that degree of excitement which I deemed not above the popular, while not below the critical, taste, I reached at once what I conceived the proper length for my intended poem— a length of about one hundred lines. It is, in fact a hundred and eight.
Página 135 - And why not?" cried the dealer. "Why not a glass?" Markheim was looking upon him with an indefinable expression. "You ask me why not?" he said. "Why, look here - look in it - look at yourself! Do you like to see it? No! nor I - nor any man.