Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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Page 102
... become the unmistakable sign of comfortable leisure , the syn- thetic rags of an expensive poverty . But it is another thing to be broke when everyone else is broke , to know that despair is not a fashionable term from a philosophy ...
... become the unmistakable sign of comfortable leisure , the syn- thetic rags of an expensive poverty . But it is another thing to be broke when everyone else is broke , to know that despair is not a fashionable term from a philosophy ...
Page 165
... become so common : like , we have to wage war to establish peace , we have to let the prices go up before we can get them to go down . We hear this sort of stuff from Washington every day , and naturally it has become a preoccupation ...
... become so common : like , we have to wage war to establish peace , we have to let the prices go up before we can get them to go down . We hear this sort of stuff from Washington every day , and naturally it has become a preoccupation ...
Page 299
... become an almost perfect precision . The music of the new poems is a masterful shift from a perfect control of traditional English ; the diction constantly reveals itself , the offhand slang becoming a stony music . I believe that ...
... become an almost perfect precision . The music of the new poems is a masterful shift from a perfect control of traditional English ; the diction constantly reveals itself , the offhand slang becoming a stony music . I believe that ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
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