http://www.everywritersresource.com/writingsense Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:26:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en EZRA POUND HIS METRIC AND POETRY I "All talk on modern poetry, by people who know," wrote Mr. Carl Sandburg in Poetry, "ends with dragging in Ezra Pound somewhere. He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant. Or he may be classed as filling a ... http://www.everywritersresource.com/writingsense/2010/07/the-poetry-of-ezra-pound-by-t-s-eliot/ THE WHAT AND THE HOW IN ART by William Dean Howells One of the things always enforcing itself upon the consciousness of the artist in any sort is the fact that those whom artists work for rarely care for their work artistically. They care for it morally, personally, partially. I suspect that ... http://www.everywritersresource.com/writingsense/2010/07/the-what-and-the-how-in-art-by-william-dean-howells/ A MODEST PROPOSAL Dr. Jonathan Swift  For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick. 1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, ... http://www.everywritersresource.com/writingsense/2010/07/lets-just-eat-the-babies-by-jonathan-swift/ MR. KIPLING’S STORIES The wind bloweth where it listeth.  But the wind of literary inspiration has rarely shaken the bungalows of India, as, in the tales of the old Jesuit missionaries, the magical air shook the frail “medicine tents,” where Huron conjurors practised their mysteries.  With a world of romance and ... http://www.everywritersresource.com/writingsense/2010/07/review-of-kiplings-stories-by-andrew-lang/ LIFE   by Percy Bysshe Shelley Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great ... http://www.everywritersresource.com/writingsense/2010/07/life-by-percy-bysshe-shelley/ A JULY AFTER-NOON BY THE POND The fervent heat, but so much more endurable in this pure air—the white and pink pond-blossoms, with great heart-shaped leaves; the glassy waters of the creek, the banks, with dense bushery, and the picturesque beeches and shade and turf; the tremulous, reedy call of some ... http://www.everywritersresource.com/writingsense/2010/07/a-july-after-noon-by-the-pond-by-walt-whitman/ POEMS IN PROSE by Oscar Wilde THE ARTIST ONE evening there came into his soul the desire to fashion an image of THE PLEASURE THAT ABIDETH FOR A MOMENT. And he went forth into the world to look for bronze. For he could think only in bronze. But all the bronze of the whole ... http://www.everywritersresource.com/writingsense/2010/07/poems-in-prose-by-oscar-wilde/ Stephen King talks with Borders about his new collection of short stories Just After Sunset   http://www.everywritersresource.com/writingsense/2010/07/stephen-king-on-the-importance-of-the-short-story/ THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE by Joseph Addison Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, Hor., Sat. i. 10, 9. Let brevity despatch the rapid thought. I have somewhere read of an eminent person who used in his private offices of devotion to give thanks to Heaven that he was born a Frenchman: for my own part I ... http://www.everywritersresource.com/writingsense/2010/07/joseph-addison-thank-god-i-am-an-englishmen/ THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES (From My Unpublished Autobiography) by Mark Twain  Some days ago a correspondent sent in an old typewritten sheet, faded by age, containing the following letter over the signature of Mark Twain: "Hartford, March 10, 1875. "Please do not use my name in any way. Please do not even divulge that fact that ... http://www.everywritersresource.com/writingsense/2010/07/my-first-typewriter-sucked-by-mark-twain/