Writers on writing : an anthology /
Neale, Robert
Writers on writing : an anthology / chosen by Robert Neale. - xxi, 249 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245) and index.
Introduction -- A Note on the Texts -- I and Pangur Ban my Cat -- from Poetics -- Chaucers Words into Adam, His Owne Scriveyn -- from Eneydos: The Prologue -- from Astrophel and Stella -- from The Defence of Poesie -- from Amoretti -- from The Advancement of Learning -- Sonnet 55 -- Of Studies -- Discontents in Devon -- from Areopagitica -- Sonnet XVII -- from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding -- To the Memory of Mr Oldham -- from The Tatler -- from On the Death of Dr Swift -- from The Preface to the Dictionary -- from An Essay on Criticism -- from Life of Cowley -- from The Task -- from Memoirs of my Life and Writings -- from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell -- from Milton -- from The Life of Johnson -- Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room -- from Northanger Abbey -- from Don Juan -- On Familiar Style -- A Musical Instrument -- from Lavengro -- from The Poems -- from A Writer's Recollections -- To R. B. -- from The Decay of Lying -- A Legend of Truth -- from Something of Myself -- A Considerable Speck -- Education by Poetry: A Meditative Monologue -- Poetry -- from A Writer's Diary -- E. P. Ode pour l'Election de son Sepulchre -- from ABC of Reading -- Ars Poetica -- from The Journal -- Words -- Politics and the English Language -- since feeling is first -- Why I Write -- To Juan at the Winter Solstice -- from Arrow in the Blue -- Preface to 'High and Low' -- Humanities in a New World -- Word -- Some Remarks (from Preface to 'Shikasta') -- August, 1968 -- Why I Write -- The Thought-Fox -- Beginnings -- beware: do not read this poem -- Imagining Ourselves -- from Little Gidding V -- Notes -- Sources and Acknowledgements -- Index.
"The people most worth listening to about the craft of writing are those who do it best, the writers themselves--a fact strangely neglected by many aspiring writers and teachers of writing today. This new anthology gathers together what writers from Aristotle to the present day have written, inprose and poetry, about the problems and techniques, the frustrations and fulfillment of their craft. A serious study tool for those who wish to refine and polish their own writing, Writers on Writing is also a fascinating bedside companion for casual reading. It explores a wide range of topics fromthe metaphysics of language to the daily grind of getting words on paper. From Geoffrey Chaucer to T.S. Eliot, from Francis Bacon to Doris Lessing, from Jane Austen to George Orwell, the works in this anthology offer the advice and insights of major writers from the United States, Britain, Canada,and New Zealand."--Publisher description.
019558256X 9780195582567
94111047
English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Authorship--Literary collections
English language--Rhetoric.
English literature
Authorship.
English language--Writing
PR21 / .W75 1992 PN165 / .W75 1992
808.042
Writers on writing : an anthology / chosen by Robert Neale. - xxi, 249 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245) and index.
Introduction -- A Note on the Texts -- I and Pangur Ban my Cat -- from Poetics -- Chaucers Words into Adam, His Owne Scriveyn -- from Eneydos: The Prologue -- from Astrophel and Stella -- from The Defence of Poesie -- from Amoretti -- from The Advancement of Learning -- Sonnet 55 -- Of Studies -- Discontents in Devon -- from Areopagitica -- Sonnet XVII -- from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding -- To the Memory of Mr Oldham -- from The Tatler -- from On the Death of Dr Swift -- from The Preface to the Dictionary -- from An Essay on Criticism -- from Life of Cowley -- from The Task -- from Memoirs of my Life and Writings -- from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell -- from Milton -- from The Life of Johnson -- Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room -- from Northanger Abbey -- from Don Juan -- On Familiar Style -- A Musical Instrument -- from Lavengro -- from The Poems -- from A Writer's Recollections -- To R. B. -- from The Decay of Lying -- A Legend of Truth -- from Something of Myself -- A Considerable Speck -- Education by Poetry: A Meditative Monologue -- Poetry -- from A Writer's Diary -- E. P. Ode pour l'Election de son Sepulchre -- from ABC of Reading -- Ars Poetica -- from The Journal -- Words -- Politics and the English Language -- since feeling is first -- Why I Write -- To Juan at the Winter Solstice -- from Arrow in the Blue -- Preface to 'High and Low' -- Humanities in a New World -- Word -- Some Remarks (from Preface to 'Shikasta') -- August, 1968 -- Why I Write -- The Thought-Fox -- Beginnings -- beware: do not read this poem -- Imagining Ourselves -- from Little Gidding V -- Notes -- Sources and Acknowledgements -- Index.
"The people most worth listening to about the craft of writing are those who do it best, the writers themselves--a fact strangely neglected by many aspiring writers and teachers of writing today. This new anthology gathers together what writers from Aristotle to the present day have written, inprose and poetry, about the problems and techniques, the frustrations and fulfillment of their craft. A serious study tool for those who wish to refine and polish their own writing, Writers on Writing is also a fascinating bedside companion for casual reading. It explores a wide range of topics fromthe metaphysics of language to the daily grind of getting words on paper. From Geoffrey Chaucer to T.S. Eliot, from Francis Bacon to Doris Lessing, from Jane Austen to George Orwell, the works in this anthology offer the advice and insights of major writers from the United States, Britain, Canada,and New Zealand."--Publisher description.
019558256X 9780195582567
94111047
English literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Authorship--Literary collections
English language--Rhetoric.
English literature
Authorship.
English language--Writing
PR21 / .W75 1992 PN165 / .W75 1992
808.042