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Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch was one of the giants of early twentieth-century literature and literary criticism.
On the Art of Writing by Arthur Quiller-Couch is a series of lectures on the creative and essential nature of language, as well as the skills needed to deliver and receive the written word.
Cambridge University Press is delighted to reissue some of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's key texts in this new edition.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch was one of the giants of early twentieth-century literature and literary criticism.
In the third book of the "Ethics", and in the second chapter, Aristotle, dealing with certain actions which, though bad in themselves, admit of pity and forgiveness because they were committed involuntarily, through ignorance, instances 'the man who did not know a subject was forbidden, like Aeschylus with the Mysteries,' and 'the man who only meant to show how it worked, like the fellow who let off the catapult' ([Greek: e deixai Boulemos apheinai, os o ton katapelten]). I feel comfortably sure, Gentlemen, that in a previous course of lectures "On the Art of Writing", unlike Aeschylus, I divulged no mysteries: but I am troubled with speculations over that man and the catapult, because I rea...
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch was one of the giants of early twentieth-century literature and literary criticism.
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 21 November 1863 - 12 May 1944) was a Cornish writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250-1900 (later extended to 1918) and for his literary criticism. He influenced many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff, author of 84, Charing Cross Road and its sequel, Q's Legacy.His Oxford Book of English Verse was a favourite of John Mortimer's fictional character Horace Rumpole.