...— but, perhaps, the antorial vanity has had more to do with the omission than any one other canse. Most writers — poets in especial — prefer having it understood that they compose by a speties of fine frenzy — an eestatic intuition — and would positively shudder at letting the public...

...His processes were strictly analytical. A few sentences from his essay throw light on the subject: "Most writers— poets in especial— prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of line frenzy — an ecstatic intuition — and would positively shudder at letting the public take a...

...have, to be sure, but also, perspiration. "Many writers," says Poe in The Philosophy of Composition, "poets in especial, prefer having it understood that...letting the public take a peep behind the scenes." True, indeed, the artist conceives his work in a moment of "ecstatic intuition," but he does not bring...

...; but, perhaps, the authorial vanity has had more to do with the omission than any one other cause. Most writers — poets in especial — prefer having...scenes at the elaborate and vacillating crudities of 32 thought, at the true purposes seized only at the last moment, at the innumerable glimpses of idea...

...; but, perhaps, the authorial vanity has had more to do with the omission than any one other cause. Most writers — poets in especial — prefer having...understood that they compose by a species of fine" frenzy^1— an ecstatic "intuition ; and would posttively shudder at letting the public take a peep...

...; but, perhaps, the authorial vanity has had more to do with the omission than any one other cause. Most writers — poets in especial — prefer having it understood that they compose by <• species of fine frenzy — an ecstatic iutuition; and would positively shudder at letting the...

...that entitled "The Philosophy of Composition," published in the number for April, 1846. In it he says, "Most writers — poets in especial — prefer having...the last moment — at the innumerable glimpses of ideas that arrived not at the maturity of full view — at the fully matured fancies discarded in despair...

...especial—prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy—an ecstatic intuition—and would positively shudder at letting the public take...scenes, at the elaborate and vacillating crudities of thought—at the true purposes seized only at the last moment— at the innumerable glimpses of idea...

...winter and at five in summer. Massillon recopied some of his sermons twenty times. Says Edgar Allan Poe: "Most writers — poets in especial — prefer having...letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.. . — in a word, at the wheels and pinions, the tackle for scene-shifting, the step ladders and demon-traps,...

...perhaps the most weighty and apposite paragraphs: Most writers, — poets in especial, — prefer to have it understood that they compose by a species of fine...behind the scenes at the elaborate and vacillating conditions of thought, at the true purposes seized only at the last moment, at the innumerable glimpses...