Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
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F. L. Lucas
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About F. L. Lucas
Frank Laurence Lucas was an English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by F. L. LucasPoetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.