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Just thinking what to choose and read for WORLD BOOK NIGHT in a couple of days time?. This book of English Verse, edited by Sir Arthur Quliier-Couch, might be one of them?. I have had this in my collection for some time, its a bokk I always return to every so often, when all I’m looking for is beautiful text. this book has it in abundance
Just fyi
“Murder your darlings” -- Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Darlings = irrelevant or superfluous parts in your writing that you like, but just Do Not Work
Darlings =/= your characters
You don’t have to kill your characters to be a good writer.
Some advice* on character death:
If you do kill a character, the death should have purpose and help to drive the story.
Don’t just kill a character because you’re at a loss of how to develop them (as in, this shouldn't be the sole reason)
Character death for the shock value of character death Does Not Work.
Killing off too many characters can make the reader disinterested. The characters carry the story and give the reader someone to relate to. Take that connection away and the writing becomes dull.
*I’m in no way a professional. This is what I’ve learned from experience, and is in no way a set of concrete rules for writing.
...as more and more you grow to value Truth and the modest grace of Truth, it is less and less to such writers you will turn...the qualities of style we allow them are not the qualities we should seek as a norm, for they one and all offend against Art's true maxim of avoiding excess.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, On the Art of Writing
The age when men are eager about great work is the age when great work gets itself done.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, On the Art of Writing
For while the ways of Art are hard at best, they will break you if you go unsustained by belief in what you are trying to do.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, On The Art of Writing
The age when men are eager about great work is the age when great work gets itself done.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Do not forget that the printed book - the written word - presupposes a speaking voice, and must ever have at its back some sense in us of the speaking voice.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, On the Art of Writing
“A tongue of pale blue flame shivered on the truck of the mast,” from Ia by Q [A. T. Quiller-Couch], 1896.
