
“I believe that only poetry counts… A great novelist is first of all a great poet.”
The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad (London: Chatto & Windus, 1948) p. 2
“I believe that only poetry counts… A great novelist is first of all a great poet.”
Source: Man Against Mass Society (1952), p. 25
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Essays on Woman (1996), The Ethos of Woman's Professions (1930)
“I'm no novelist. Or anything else, I suppose, except, just possibly a poet, once in a while.”
Scannell's diary entry - 28 December 1966 James Andrew Taylor - Walking Wounded: The Life and poetry of Vernon Scannell O U P 2013 ISBN 9780199603183
Booknotes http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/index_print.asp?ProgramID=1107 television interview (July 5, 1992)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 118.