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阅读材料2 The Cardinal Virtue of Prose Arthur Clutton Brock Prose of its very nature is longer than verse, and the virtues peculiar to it manifest themselves gradually. If the cardinal virtue of poetry is love, the cardinal virtue of prose is justice; and, whereas love makes you act and speak on the spur of the moment（一时冲动的，不假思索的）, justice needs inquiry, patience, and a control even of the noblest passions. By justice here I do not mean justice only to particular people or ideas, but a habit of justice in all the processes of thought, a style tranquillized（使平静） and a form moulded（铸造）by that habit. The master of prose is not cold, but he will not let any word or image inflame（激怒，燃烧）him with a heat irrelevant to his purpose. Unhasting, unresting, he pursues it, subduing（征服）all the riches of his mind to it, rejecting all beauties that are not germane（密切相关的，恰当的）to it; making his own beauty out of the very accomplishment of it, out of the whole work and its proportions, so that you must read to the end before you know that it is beautiful. But he has his reward, for he is trusted and convinces, as those who are at the mercy of their own eloquence（口才，雄辩）do not; and he gives a pleasure all the greater for being hardly noticed. In the best prose, whether narrative or argument, we are so led on as we read, that we do not stop to applaud the writer, nor do we stop to question him. 散文品质阿瑟·克拉顿-布罗克? 就其本质而言，散文比韵文篇幅长，其特有的品质是逐渐展现出来的。如果说诗最重要的品质是爱，散文最重要的品质是爱使你因一时冲动而行动、，则需要调查，需要耐心，需要控制即使激情是最崇高。关于，我不是指只针对具体人或具体思想的，而是指在思想的全过程中的一种的习惯，一种由此习惯所形成的沉稳的文风和由此习惯所造就的形式。散文大师并不冷漠，但他也不允许那些激情但又与他的初衷毫不相干的或形象来激发他的感情。他不慌不忙、永不停止地追求着，克制着丰富的，摒弃所有与之无关的，从完成的作品之中，从作品的整体和各部分之间和谐的关系里，去创造自己的美，因此，你必须把读完。，他，因为人们信任他，他令人信服，而且，他不露声色而能给人更大的愉悦。在阅读最好的散文时，无论是叙事的还是说理的，一直读下去，不会停下来向作者欢呼，也不会停下来向作者发问散文的篇幅较诗歌长，它自身所蕴涵的特有品质，总是逐渐得向人们展示出来。如果说诗歌的主要品质是爱，那么散文的主要品质则为其合理公正性。爱使人热情奔放，瞬间爆发，而合理公正，则需要质疑，需要耐心，需要控制情感，即便是那最高尚的激情。我这里说的合理公正，并非指代某个特殊的人或是特殊的想法，而是指一种习性。它体现在一切思想的过程中，是一种文静的风格，一种由此习性塑成的形式。 　　散文的创作者并非冷酷无情，然而任何与其写作意图无关的词语，亦或是图象都休想热昏他的头脑