Word: punctuaton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...simply and clearly as he could. Now if you happen to be James Joyce, and what you have to say is very special, then even the clearest way of saying it may not be at all easy to follow. The difficulty in Miss Handy's poem--which is its punctuaton--I now think to be this sort of necessary difficulty. But I will bet that Joyce and Miss Handy wrote as simply as their subjects permitted them to write; and I will state as a fact that most of the people writing for the Advocate and Signature write as complicatedly...
| 1 |