Sunday, October 3, 2010

Prose vs. Poetry

Can't remember where I read this, but it was just this weekend (New Canon website? NYT Book Review?) -

"A really good line in prose should be as unchangeable as a line in poetry" - in other words, economy, beauty, truth, etc. Like Mill says (and Stephen Daedelus echoes) - some novels are poetry, some poetry is just verse.

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