It was the brief, understated style of a newspaper man. ... Bernard Bereson summarized brilliantly what it is about Hemingway's prose that makes it so powerful when he provided a blurb for The Old Man and the Sea at Hemingway's prompting. (The Old Man and the Sea is) communicated in prose as calm and compelling as Homer's verse. ... (Hemingway, Ernest 785) The fundamental piece of this letter is the characterization of Hemingway as a real artist. ... (Fishkin 140-141) It was not just an attention to detail and a talent for brevity that Hemingway learned from his time as a news...

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Ernest Hemingway is one of the most recognized writers in literature and has received numerous prizes for his works such as the Nobel Prize for his astounding contribution to literature, the Pulitzer Prize for his world renowned book "The Old Man and the Sea" and the Award for Merit from Academy of Arts & Letters (Baker). ... In my opinion Hemingway was a man above them all. I will now follow on with the positive criticism of Ernest Hemingway. ... Burhans wrote this of Hemingway's style" The famous and extraordinarily eloquent concreteness of Hemingway's style is inimitable preci...

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