...control. There are no external or extrinsic influences — resulting from weariness or interruption. A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale....conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single tfect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events as may best...

...influences — resulting from weariness or interruption. A skilful literary artist has constructed a talc. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate...deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to bo wrought out, he then invents such incidents — he then combines such events as may best nid hini...

...accommodate his incidents ; but having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single tffect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents...-effect. . If his very initial sentence tend not to the ontbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should...

...incidents. In all these stories Poe was demonstrating the soundness of the principle that a writer " having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, . . . combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect. ... In the...

...deliberate care, a certain unique effect to be wrought out, should invent such incidents and combine such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect." This he seems to have done ; but if Poe, how much more Hawthorne ! In analyzing the latter's character,...

...emphasize and then discarded everything which did not draw attention to that point. He himself wrote : "Having conceived with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out, he (the artist) then invests such incidents, he then combines such events, as may best aid him in establishing...

...interest. Both his aim and his method in narrative prose are succinctly described in his own words : — " A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale....such events as may best aid him in establishing this pre- ' conceived effect. If his very initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then...

...control. There are no external or extrinsic influences — resulting from weariness or interruption. A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale....effect If his very initial sentence tend not to the ontbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first step. In the whole composition there should...

...control. There are no external or extrinsic influences—resulting from weariness or interruption. A skilful literary artist has constructed a tale....single effect to be wrought out, he then invents such incidents—he then combines such events as may best aid him in establishing this preconceived effect...

...theory and its application to his own tales still clearer. " A skilful literary artist," he continues, " has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned...establishing this preconceived effect. If his very first initial sentence tend not to the outbringing of this effect, then he has failed in his first...