Three forms I see on stretchers lying, brought out there untended lying,
Over each the blanket spread, ample brownish woolen blanket,
Gray and heavy blanket, folding, covering all. Continue reading A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim (l. 4
Category: Literature
In any type of writing, there are three possible points of view: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, or me, you, and other. There are three periods of the English language’s history: Old, Middle, and Modern. And dramas traditionally have three parts: prot asis, epitasis, and catastrophe.
John Dryden (1631
Three poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed,
The next in majesty, in both the last:
The force of Nature could no farther go;
To make a third she joined the former two.
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The Writer As Technician
QUOTATION: Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. Continue reading The Writer As Technician
