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She took the opportunity to rein in what must have seemed syntactic and figural excesses in the work. In a passage about the invalid’s attitude to poetry, the 1930 version state
Brian Dillon • On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
Nothing has impacted my work more than thinking about the interplay between line and sentence. Lines have a vertical energy: They pull down the page, almost as if gravity is tugging from the bottom of the page. Sentences, on the other hand, have a horizontal energy: They push across the page, beginning on the left and pressing toward the right
... See moreMaggie Smith • Dear Writer
When a writer labels a work that resembles prose as poetry, they’re suggesting the work be evaluated in the court of poetry rather than that of prose. Pay less attention to plot, narrative and other prosaic devices, and instead the building blocks of poetry: sound, rhythm, and, most importantly, image, the sensory details conjured in our minds.