Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
PAGE The Triumph of Letters 1 The Problem of Style 3 The Instrument and the Audience, with a Digression on the 4 Actor The Sense-Elements 8 The Functions of Sense 10 Picture 11 Melody 14 Meaning, Exampled in Negation 17 The Weapons of Thought 21 The Analogy from Architecture 2...
The evils caused by the influence of the audience on the writer are many. First of all comes a fault far enough removed from the characteristic vices of the charlatan—to wit, sh...
2. Chapter 2Do these verses draw their power from a skilful arrangement of vowel and consonant? But they are quoted from a translation, and can be translated otherwise, well or ill or indif...
4. Chapter 4Poets, it is said, anticipate science; here in these four lines is work for a thousand laboratories for a thousand years. But the truth has been understated; every writer and ev...
6. Chapter 6Figure and ornament, therefore, are not interchangeable terms; the loftiest figurative style most conforms to the precepts of gravity and chastity. None the less there is a deco...
1. Chapter 1PAGE The Triumph of Letters 1 The Problem of Style 3 The Instrument and the Audience, with a Digression on the 4 Actor The Sense-Elements 8 The Functions of Sense 10 Picture 11...
3. Chapter 3In truth the Romantics are right, and the serenity of the classic ideal is the serenity of paralysis and death. A universal agreement in the use of words facilitates communicati...
7. Chapter 7Single words too we plagiarise when we use them without realisation and mastery of their meaning. The best argument for a succinct style is this, that if you use words you do no...