THE GREAT STONE FACE
The Author s IntrusionRereading Hazlitt... Herodotus... Chaucer... Shakespeare... Bos-well... Montaigne... and certain other emitters of luminosity neverpalls. Now and then I have dipped- only dipped- into my-self with pleasure... but pursuit of that pleasure is certain tosharpen awareness of words not precise or harmonious... of doggedphrases... of sentences to be remodeled... of transpositions thatwould strengthen grace... of subject matter by hunks that hadbetter be excised... and of interesting... delightful... winged thingsin my head that belong to the written composition. I am sogrounded in respect for the English language as used by noblewriters for more than five hundred years that I have neverbeen contemporaneous with more than four or five writerswhom I admire. My contemporaries have lacked amplitude...wit... Johnsonian horse sense... play of mind... and other virtuescommon to predecessors still waiting to be enjoyed. Most mod-ern American writing in the \\\"best seller\\\" lists is so loosely --often sloppily... ignorantly... hideously--composed that it has no appeal for a craftsman disciplined to lucidity and the logic of grammar... bred to a style \\\"familiar but by no means vul- gar...\\\" and harmonized from infancy with the rhythms of nature. Book Description
A selection of Poe's poetry and sixteen of his best-known tales, including \"The Murders in the Rue Morgue,\" \"The Fall of the House of Usher,\" \"The Black Cat,\" and \"The Pit and the Pendulum.\".
About Author
In his short, troubled life Edgar Allan Poe originated the mystery story, brought new psychological depth to the tale of horror, and made inimitable contributions to Romantic poetry and literary criticism. Born in Boston in 1809 to itinerant actors, Poe was orphaned as an infant and sent to live wit
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