Memoirs And Correspondence of Coventry Patmore volume 1
Memoirs And Correspondence of Coventry Patmore volume 1
Basil Champneys
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" 14, Percy St. , Bedford Square, "Feb. 13, 1864. " My Dear Mr. Taylor, " As I leave England in the beginning of the week, I have directed the rest of the proofs to be sent to you alone. I will mention that almost the only point, hitherto, in which your most careful revision has not anticipated my corrections is one, perhaps, in which we differ on principle. Dashes ( ) are absolutely necessary in dramatic verse, and when dialogues are introduced into other forms of poetry ; but I have the stron...gest repugnance to them in lyrical and narrative verse, and have proved my fidelity to this principle by not admitting more than two or three (I think) in all the verse I have ever written. My notion is that absolutely perfect language ought to be able to do without any punctuation, which is only a concession made to that difficulty which it is the glory of the poet to overcome. Now the dash is an immense addition to this unmetrical looseness of language, and a poet who uses it often (which Mr. A.
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