Writers on Writing (Paperback)

by Walter Allen (Author)
Key Phrases: Biographia Literaria, Lyrical Ballads, Leaves of Grass (more...)

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WRITERS ON WRITING About writing Tolstoi said If you ask someone Can you play the violin and he says I dont know, I have not tried, perhaps I can, you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say I dont know, I have not tried, as though one had only to try and one would become a writer A. B. GOLDENWEIZER Talks with Tolstoi SELECTED INTRODUCED BY WALTER ALLEN PHOENIX HOUSE LONDON ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The compiler and the publishers are grateful to the following authors, publishers, and literary executors for permission to include copyright material The Public Trustee, Messrs Cassell Co. Ltd and Messrs A. P. Watt Son for extracts from Journals of Arnold Bennett the Author, Mr Denys Kilham Roberts and Messrs Ivor Nicholson Watson Ltd for Notes on the Novel from Orion II Oxford University Press for the essay The Case Against Free-verse from Collected Essays by Robert Bridges the Author, Mr Dcnys Kilham Roberts and Messrs Ivor Nicholson Watson for extracts from A Conversation from Orion I the Author and Messrs Chatto Windus for an extract from Experiments by Norman Douglas Messrs J. M. Dent Sons Ltd for extracts from Notes on Life and Letters and the Preface to The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad Messrs Chatto Windus for an extract from The Seagull by Anton Tchchov the Author and Messrs Faber Faber Ltd for extracts from The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism by T. S. Eliot the Author and Messrs Methuen Co. Ltd for extracts from The Sacred Wood by T. S. Eliot Messrs W. Heinemann Ltd for extracts from Was the Nightingale by Ford Madox Ford Messrs Victor Gollancz and Messrs Pearn, Pollinger, Higham Ltd for an extract from Return To Tester day by Ford Madox Ford the Author and Messrs Edward Arnold Co. Ltd for extracts from Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster the Author and Messrs Jonathan Cape for an extract from the Preface to The Collected Poems of Robert Frost Mrs D. H. Lawrence, Messrs W. Heinemann Ltd and Messrs Pearn, Pollinger, Higham Ltd for extracts from The Letters ofD. H. Lawrence Messrs Cassell Co. Ltd for extracts from The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide Trustees of the Hardy Estate and Messrs Macmillan Co. Ltd for extracts from The Early Life of Thomas Hardy Cambridge University Press for extracts from The Name and Nature of Poetry by A. E. Housman Messrs Macmillan Co. Ltd and Messrs John Farquharson for extracts from Letters The Tragic Muse, and the Prefaces to The Ambassadors What Maisie Knevj The Portrait ofa Lady, The Spoils ofPoynton, The Princess Cassamassima by Henry James the Author, Messrs W. Heine mann Ltd and Messrs A. P. Watt Son for extracts from The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maug ham the Author and Messrs Sheed Ward for extracts from God and Mammon by Francois Mauriac Messrs Chatto Windus and Messrs A. M. Heath Co. Ltd for extracts from Time Regained by Marcel Proust The Patent Office and Messrs Sidgwick Jackson Ltd for an extract from Letters to a Toung Poet by R. M. Rilke Messrs George Allen Unwin Ltd for extracts from the Preface vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS to Poems by J. M. Synge The Hogarth Press for extracts from The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf and Talks With Tolstoi by A. B. Goldenweizer the late Aylmer Maude and Oxford University Press for extracts from Some Words About War and Peace by Leo Tolstoi Messrs Cassell Co. Ltd for extracts from The Life and Letters of Anton Tcheho v Messrs Chatto Windus for extracts from The Seagull by Anton Tchehov the Author and Messrs Constable Co. Ltd for extracts from Trollope A Commentary by Michael Sadleirj Mrs W. B. Yeats, Messrs Macmillan Co. Ltd and Messrs A. P. Watt Son for extracts from Anima Hominis and Essays by W. B. Yeats Executors of H. G. Wells and Messrs Victor Gollancz Ltd for an extract from Experiment in Autobiography by H. G. Wells the Author and Messrs J. M. Dent Sons Ltd for extracts from the Preface to Stories, Essays, and Poems by Walter de la Mare. Every effort has been made to trace the owner of copyright in material used in this book... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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• Paperback: 258 pages
• Publisher: Writer, Inc. (June 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871161540
• ISBN-13: 978-0871161543
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