Friday, August 15, 2014

Daily Dose

From The Oxford Book of English Prose, chosen and edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch

FOR IT IS

"For it is curious to observe, in contrast with our poets who sing of green country all the time, what a disproportionate mass of our prose is urban, and how rarely it contrives, at its best, to get off the pavement."

From Q's Preface

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