Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... beginning to the end . And Jasper himself is a man who embodies the Dickensian darkness perhaps more thoroughly than any previous charac- ter had done . I have said that the mere fact of his being a criminal has an interest that is both ...
... beginning to the end . And Jasper himself is a man who embodies the Dickensian darkness perhaps more thoroughly than any previous charac- ter had done . I have said that the mere fact of his being a criminal has an interest that is both ...
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... beginning . I was just trying to find out ways to do it . As for the different kinds of form , I call it just a continuous exploration . M.A .: One change in content to me was , in your first two books , you tended to pick a tragic ...
... beginning . I was just trying to find out ways to do it . As for the different kinds of form , I call it just a continuous exploration . M.A .: One change in content to me was , in your first two books , you tended to pick a tragic ...
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... beginning again . I always felt that way myself . I loved to go back to school and it seemed to me that this was a kind of beginning with hope in it . The football season , then , was very intensely a communal ac- tivity , a communal ...
... beginning again . I always felt that way myself . I loved to go back to school and it seemed to me that this was a kind of beginning with hope in it . The football season , then , was very intensely a communal ac- tivity , a communal ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
Copyright | |
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