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How to Fail in Literature; a lecture By Andrew Lang

How to Fail in Literature; a lecture

By Andrew Lang

  • Release Date: 1912-07-20
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
  • Free

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Some have the gift, the natural incommunicable power, without the ambition, others have the ambition but no other gift from any Muse. This class is the more numerous, but the smallest class of all has both the power and the will to excel in letters. The desire to write, the love of letters may shew itself in childhood, in boyhood, or youth, and mean nothing at all, a mere harvest of barren blossom without fragrance or fruit. Or, again, the concern about letters may come suddenly, when a youth that cared for none of those things is waning, it may come when a man suddenly finds that he has something which he really must tell.