He is not, and never will be considered, a great writer.
It is no wonder that we miss in him the delicate psychological insight which we look for in a great writer.
In such an analysis all that constitutes the individuality, the life, the charm of a great writer, must escape.
The fallacy about models is seen at once if we ask this simple question: Will the practice of a great writer justify a solecism in grammar or a confusion in logic?
The art of a great writer is seen in the perfect fitness of his expressions.
The materials for analysis are abundant; and by rearrangement and special study they may be made to contribute both to the history of criticism and to our comprehension of the power of a great writer.
It is valuable in itself, as well as in the opportunity it offers of considering the relation of the critical to the creative mood, an especially interesting problem when it is presented concretely in the work of a great writer.
It is one of the hardest things possible to choose representative passages from a great writer.
Many a great writer, many a great artist, no doubt, has grown up and flourished like a blade of grass between the cobblestones of Calvinism.
Samuel Johnson, a great writer of whom we shall hear more later, was the man of his day whose opinion about books was most thought of.
A great writer, a great man,--but "The rest was not perfected.
With these words Sir Walter Scott, himself a great writer, began his life of John Dryden.
Yet he is not a great writer; his style has not the requisite wholeness of good tissue.
Yet even Carlyle is not, in my judgment, to be called a great writer; one cannot think of ranking him with men like Cicero and Plato and Swift and Voltaire.
Even Carlyle is not, in my judgment, a great writer.
We have not in Emerson a great poet, a great writer, a great philosophy-maker.
Though not a great writer, if we compare him with Browning or Thackeray, he was more closely associated than any of his literary contemporaries with the social and political struggles of the age.
Temple was a statesman and an excellent diplomatist; but he thought himself to be a great writer as well, and he entered into a literary controversy concerning the relative merits of the classics and modern literature.
If he had not {39} been a great fool he would never have been a great writer.
They all foresaw a great writer in d'Arthez; they looked upon him as their chief since the loss of one of their number, a mystical genius, one of the most extraordinary intellects of the age.
But obscurity isn't a thing to aim at for anyone who is trying to write; it may be, in the case of a great writer, a sort of vociferousness which intoxicates you: and the man may convey a kind of inspiration by his very obscurities.
I feel the need to express my best thoughts in writing, so I've decided to become a great writer--you know, take up literature.
Confessing then that he meant to become a great writer, he was now not only a great writer but a thinker, in the true sense of the word.
But further, besides being a great humorist and a great sportsman and a great preacher, William Guthrie was a great writer.
William Guthrie was a great humorist, a great sportsman, a great preacher, and a great writer.
Goldsmith was great in spite of his weaknesses, Boswell by reason of his; if he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.
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