Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite PoemRobert Pack, Jay Parini In this collection, "fifty-nine of America's best poets select their favorite verse by another writer and explore its influence on their own writing."--From back cover. |
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... Prufrock " In 1952 , □ n 1952 , sailing to Korea as a U.S. Navy librarian for Landing Ship Tank 914 , I read T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock . Ill - educated , a product of Chicago's public - school system , I was ...
... Prufrock " In 1952 , □ n 1952 , sailing to Korea as a U.S. Navy librarian for Landing Ship Tank 914 , I read T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock . Ill - educated , a product of Chicago's public - school system , I was ...
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... Prufrock is also singing because he's a poet . Prufrock is T. S. Eliot and , the truth is , Eliot is so much like Prufrock that he has to distance himself from his creation . That's why he gives the man that pompous name . Did you know ...
... Prufrock is also singing because he's a poet . Prufrock is T. S. Eliot and , the truth is , Eliot is so much like Prufrock that he has to distance himself from his creation . That's why he gives the man that pompous name . Did you know ...
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... Prufrock is a man who tries to reconcile the image of real women with ' light brown hair ' on their arms with some ideal , women who are a cross between the goddess Juno and a sweet Victorian maiden . ” " Prufrock seems to know pretty ...
... Prufrock is a man who tries to reconcile the image of real women with ' light brown hair ' on their arms with some ideal , women who are a cross between the goddess Juno and a sweet Victorian maiden . ” " Prufrock seems to know pretty ...
Contents
John Balaban on Wulf and Eadwacer | 11 |
Rosellen Brown on Silence by Marianne Moore | 26 |
Cook on Painting by Langston Hughes | 40 |
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