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龙榆生

近三百年名家词选 Douban

author: 龙榆生 publishing house: 上海古籍出版社 2014 - 7

本书萃选自明末词人陈子龙起，历有清一代，迄民国时期著名词人作品，凡66家498首。各家均有小传，并采词话家评语。

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"It's just a matter of trial and error. You try something, it doesn't work. You try it another way, maybe it works even less well, or maybe it works a little bit better. It really is the dark room that Henry James describes. It's a sort of groping, and continuously trying things out, and understanding why something fails. The key is to try to understand what are the elements that are failing, and why, and then you move on to the next draft with a little bit more of clarity."