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CHAPTER VI
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Which are the great short stories of the English language? Not a bad basis for a debate! This I am sure of: that there are far fewer supremely1 good short stories than there are supremely good long books. It takes more exquisite3 skill to carve the cameo than the statue. But the strangest thing is that the two excellences5 seem to be separate and even antagonistic6. Skill in the one by no means ensures skill in the other. The great masters of our literature, Fielding, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, Reade, have left no single short story of outstanding merit behind them, with the possible exception of Wandering Willie's Tale in "Red Gauntlet." On the other hand, men who have been very great in the short story, Stevenson, Poe, and Bret Harte, have written no great book. The champion sprinter7 is seldom a five-miler as well.
Well, now, if you had to choose your team whom would you put in? You have not really a large choice. What are the points by which you judge them? You want strength, novelty, compactness, intensity8 of interest, a single vivid impression left upon the mind. Poe is the master of all. I may remark by the way that it is the sight of his green cover, the next in order upon my favourite shelf, which has started this train of thought. Poe is, to my mind, the supreme2 original short story writer of all time. His brain was like a seed-pod full of seeds which flew carelessly around, and from which have sprung nearly all our modern types of story. Just think of what he did in his offhand9, prodigal10 fashion, seldom troubling to repeat a success, but pushing on to some new achievement. To him must be ascribed the
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