Christopher Logue Quotes

It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself.

Christopher Logue

• Enjambment
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• Tiresome
• Attention
• Itself

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• It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself.

  

  Christopher Logue
  • Enjambment
  • Strong
  • Tiresome