Tristram Shandy

Sterne, L. 1761. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent. London, England. Various modem editions exist, such as the 1935 limited edition of The Heritage Press, New li rk, with illustrations by T M. Cleland (who bequeathed his house to R. Gordon Wasson in a son of tontine— when he retired from banking in 1962, %sson lived and worked in what had once been Tom Cleland s smdio). 

Woolf understands this new poetic prose to effect a transformation of the novel form in total, but also to make the separate genres of poetry and drama redundant. If earlier attempts at poetic prose resulted in the purple patch , an intrusion in the novel that may be eloquent, lyrical, splendid and may read very well cut out and stuck in an anthology ( 4, p. 437), the new poetic prose will follow the example of Tristram Shandy, where poetry is changing easily and naturally into prose, prose into poetry (E4, p. 438). It is a book full of poetry, but we never notice it it is a book stained deep purple, which is yet never patchy ( 4, p. 437). 

TJ refers to Laurence Sterne s Tristram Shandy, one of his favorite novels, and its author s penchant for freely associating words and ideas. - Eds. 

English author (1713-68) of the whimsical, humorous novels A Sentimental Journey and Tristram Shandy (1760-67) [Editor],... 

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