Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... beautiful thing once when he talked to a class about the poetry of nature . He said that we ought to remember that there is an inner nature , and I think he was suggesting something about poetry . That , perhaps , poetry could remind us ...
... beautiful thing once when he talked to a class about the poetry of nature . He said that we ought to remember that there is an inner nature , and I think he was suggesting something about poetry . That , perhaps , poetry could remind us ...
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... beautiful line , " That furied woman did me grievous wrong . ” And here the poem turns and grinds on its amazing hinge , which opens the gate upon the poet's fierce secret : that the woman is beloved because of , and not in spite of ...
... beautiful line , " That furied woman did me grievous wrong . ” And here the poem turns and grinds on its amazing hinge , which opens the gate upon the poet's fierce secret : that the woman is beloved because of , and not in spite of ...
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... beautiful listeners and learners as Robert Creeley , Denise Levertov , and David Ignatow . A whole poem from Say Pardon will give a sound of Ignatow's music . It is called “ Brief Elegy ” : In every beautiful song is a promise of sleep ...
... beautiful listeners and learners as Robert Creeley , Denise Levertov , and David Ignatow . A whole poem from Say Pardon will give a sound of Ignatow's music . It is called “ Brief Elegy ” : In every beautiful song is a promise of sleep ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
Copyright | |
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