Letter: Peter Taylor to Nadine Parker, 1946

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Letter from Peter Taylor, Greensboro, North Carolina, to Nadine Parker, Memphis, Tennessee, dated October 10, 1946. Writes about his teaching and writing; "Style and technique, I'm convinced, is the beginning and end of all art. It is therein that the vital judgment and inspired insight of the artist have their existence. It is only in the manner of presentation that the larger and peculiar knowledge of the writer can be found. To analyze a writer’s style is to analyze what he is really saying. And if you think that’s easy, just try it on Tolstoy sometime." Comments on furnishing an apartment and his distaste for the modern style; asks if the Parkers know Allen Seager whose story Taylor likes.

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sc.0273.001_003.001

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1946 October 10

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Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994.

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"Letter: Peter Taylor to Nadine Parker, 1946" (2021). Documents. 13.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-petertaylor1/13