...experience exactly; nothing would be lost between medium and message: "The greatest poet," he said, is "the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will...curtains. I will have nothing hang in the way, not even the richest curtains. What I tell I tell precisely for what it is."6 Wordsworth praised the poet...

...marked style, and is more the channel of thought and things, without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will...in the way between me and the rest, like curtains. What I feel, I feel for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt, or startle, or fascinate, or soothe,...

...marked style, and is more the channel of thought and things, without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, 1 will not have in my writing any elegance, or effect, or originality to hang in the way between me...

...George Orwell. The first inveighed against all "style" in the introduction to his Leaves of Grass: "I will not have in my writing any elegance or effect...me and the rest, like curtains. I will have nothing in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell, I tell precisely for what it is" (cited in Sontag...

...effect or originality to hang in the way between me and the rest, like curtains. I will have nothing in the way, not the richest curtains. What I tell, I tell precisely for what it is" (cited in Sontag 1966b: 16). In the same tradition is George Orwell, who...

...marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will...richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what it is. Let who may exalt or starde or fascinate or soothe I will have purposes as health or heat...

...marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will...nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains. [...] The direct trial of him who would be the greatest poet is today. If he does not flood himself...

...style and is more the free channel of himself," that great and very mannered poet contends. "He says to his art, I will not be meddlesome, I will not have...richest curtains. What I tell I tell for precisely what it is." Of course, as everyone knows or claims to know, there is no neutral, absolutely transparent...

...(11. 51-52). The prototype, however, is a passage on style in the 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass: "I will not have in my writing any elegance or effect...nothing hang in the way, not the richest curtains" (719, emphasis added). The "richly drest" woman who emerges from "aft the blinds" thus appears to be...

...marked style and is more the channel of thoughts and things without increase or diminution, and is the free channel of himself. He swears to his art, I will not be meddlesome, 1 will not have in my writing any elegances or effect or originality to hang in the way between me...