In a letter from the American poet, Robert Lowell to Randall Jarrell (another American author and poet) he wrote:“In prose you have to be interested in what is being said… it’s very exciting for me, like going fishing’.
Source: Nick Hornby, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, London: Viking, 2006, 15.
Geoff Pound
A review of The Complete Polysyllabic Spree can be found at the site, Reviewing Books and Movies.
Image: Robert Lowell.
