Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... John Jasper as a criminal . Now , the kind of criminal Jasper turns out to be is the occa- sion for long and difficult research , the chief results of which have been brilliantly summarized by Mr. Edgar Johnson in his distinguished ...
... John Jasper as a criminal . Now , the kind of criminal Jasper turns out to be is the occa- sion for long and difficult research , the chief results of which have been brilliantly summarized by Mr. Edgar Johnson in his distinguished ...
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... John . A. John is to my mind the dark lyric poet of the Gos- pels . Cf. the opening of his account on the word . The Word as God . B. Yet he is not an ornamental poet , His chs . short , his words blunt . Not blunted , but sharp . C ...
... John . A. John is to my mind the dark lyric poet of the Gos- pels . Cf. the opening of his account on the word . The Word as God . B. Yet he is not an ornamental poet , His chs . short , his words blunt . Not blunted , but sharp . C ...
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... John Ashbery . He's done beautiful things , and I think nobody has shown proper appreciation of what he's about . He had a prose poem addressed to , of all people , John Clare . You know John Clare ? One of the insane Romantic poets of ...
... John Ashbery . He's done beautiful things , and I think nobody has shown proper appreciation of what he's about . He had a prose poem addressed to , of all people , John Clare . You know John Clare ? One of the insane Romantic poets of ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
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