On the Art of Writing
Автор:
Arthur Quiller-CouchЖанр:
Дата добавления:
2024-10-24Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
65
Description
Arthur Quiller-Couch had a distinguished career as a writer and literary critic before being appointed the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. Shortly afterwards, he delivered this series of lectures on the history, and tasteful composition of, English prose.
His core advice is that the effective writer writes with accuracy, perspicuity, persuasion, and appropriateness. He implores writers to avoid jargon, and along the way he drops that famous line that modern writers love to quote: “Murder your darlings.”
Though ostensibly focused on the craft of writing, these lectures cover much more than just that; because Quiller-Couch...
