Talks on Writing English: First Series
327 Pages., Complete and Unabridged. An excerpt from the beginning of the first chapter: THE ART OF WRITING. INTO all productive art enter two sorts of power, that which is communicable and that which is incommunicable, - in other words, that which may be taught and that which is inborn. Upon this fact is based the distinction between the mechanical and the fine arts, although since both kinds of power have a share in all production nobody has ever been able to draw a sharp and definite line at which the mechanical arts end and the fine arts begin. The power which is incommunicable is that of imagination, that indefinable grace and skill, that enchantment of creative ability which is born with rare individuals, and for which he who is not dowered with it by nature struggles in vain. It is this which has given rise to that saying as profound as it is terribly hackneyed which declares that a poet is born and not made. It is this which distinguishes genius from talent; and it is this which has so dazzled the eyes of the world as to produce the mistaken notion that since imagination is not to be learned nothing is to be learned in the realm of art. This incommunicable power is the soul of fine art; yet into fine art no less than into the mechanical arts comes also that power which may be learned. This communicable power is commonly spoken of as the technical, or as technique.
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Talks on Writing English: First Series
327 Pages., Complete and Unabridged. An excerpt from the beginning of the first chapter: THE ART OF WRITING. INTO all productive art enter two sorts of power, that which is communicable and that which is incommunicable, - in other words, that which may be taught and that which is inborn. Upon this fact is based the distinction between the mechanical and the fine arts, although since both kinds of power have a share in all production nobody has ever been able to draw a sharp and definite line at which the mechanical arts end and the fine arts begin. The power which is incommunicable is that of imagination, that indefinable grace and skill, that enchantment of creative ability which is born with rare individuals, and for which he who is not dowered with it by nature struggles in vain. It is this which has given rise to that saying as profound as it is terribly hackneyed which declares that a poet is born and not made. It is this which distinguishes genius from talent; and it is this which has so dazzled the eyes of the world as to produce the mistaken notion that since imagination is not to be learned nothing is to be learned in the realm of art. This incommunicable power is the soul of fine art; yet into fine art no less than into the mechanical arts comes also that power which may be learned. This communicable power is commonly spoken of as the technical, or as technique.
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Talks on Writing English: First Series
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Talks on Writing English: First Series
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781663536051 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 07/18/2020 |
| Pages: | 328 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.73(d) |
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