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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... Song of J. Alfred 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 ...
... Song of J. Alfred 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 ...
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... song of the cricket seems at first to resemble the medley of individual songs at the end of " To Autumn . " In that poem , Keats addresses the personifi- cation of autumn ( " thou hast thy music , too " ) and then enumerates the " songs ...
... song of the cricket seems at first to resemble the medley of individual songs at the end of " To Autumn . " In that poem , Keats addresses the personifi- cation of autumn ( " thou hast thy music , too " ) and then enumerates the " songs ...
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... song had also been memorizing me . Now , many years later , I still marvel that it has stayed with me , perhaps for the very reason that it is a song , in which shape , sound , and image strike us deeper than the sense . Sound is the ...
... song had also been memorizing me . Now , many years later , I still marvel that it has stayed with me , perhaps for the very reason that it is a song , in which shape , sound , and image strike us deeper than the sense . Sound is the ...
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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