Read Ezra Pound’s List of 23 “Don’ts” For Writing Poetry (1913)
4. Do not retell in mediocre verse what has already been done in good prose.
13. When Shakespeare talks of the ‘Dawn in russet mantle clad’ he presents something which the painter does not present. There is in this line of his nothing that one can call description; he presents.
18. A rhyme must have in it some slight element of surprise if it is to give pleasure...
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I've had a short holiday from my book. Resumed yesterday. The break makes it clear, that in addition to the standard writerly insecurities, the subject matter brings me down.
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