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The Author's Craft
Arnold Bennett
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[pg 23] Yet an inexperienced, unguided curiosity would be capable of walking through a French street and through an English street, and noting chiefly that whereas English lamp-posts spring from the kerb, French lamp-posts cling to the side of the house! Not that that detail is not worth noting. It is—in its place. French lamp-posts are part of what we call the "interesting character" of a French street. We say of a French street that it is "full of character." As if an English street was not! Such is blindness—to be cured by travel and the exercise of the logi. . . Read More
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its quite interesting.. short story
Interesting book. The section on real observation was wonderful, as was his section on the relationship of the author to the public.
Interesting book, and most likely for reasons the author would not like. Bennet clearly rejects the idea of God and yet grounds the craft of the author (who he shapes as the artist) in the garments of truth and beauty. His main criticism of the author/artist is when they deviate from what is true as
The role of the artist is to be an observer in an active way, not passive; not gathering a considerable number of data, but collecting and interrelating imaginative patterns.
Author's become so excited by what they observe in life, they must share the story of intense vision and recognition of beaut