... controlled order and an accurate sober effectiveness. Not that it lacks fire and speed, but its glow is steady and tastefully tempered, its run is a vigorous continuity. There have been English prose-writers who did not want in the clarity, the justice, the care, the firmness and the ease that constitute prose an art distinct from poetry which comes with a flashing flooding force; but only ...
... exclusion. He could have said, "If Toru, why not Romesh too?" NIRODBARAN: The Hindu reviewer has complained that only poets have been mentioned and not prose writers when there are many good English prose writers in India. SRI AUROBINDO: I don't see a single really good prose writer. NIRODBARAN: The Hindu says there are some among the moderns. SRI AUROBINDO: Does it mean Nehru and Gandhi? ...
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