Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... comes into exis- tence according to his relation to the foreground and the back- ground of the novel . He is necessary to the main action , and yet it is through his eyes that we often see , and join , the back- ground . Through his ...
... comes into exis- tence according to his relation to the foreground and the back- ground of the novel . He is necessary to the main action , and yet it is through his eyes that we often see , and join , the back- ground . Through his ...
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... come to it and come really to understand it until I met him in Portland , Oregon at the beginning of one of the antiwar ... comes to read " Kaddish . " One can be startled by a poem like " Howl , ” and one can be delighted by a poem like ...
... come to it and come really to understand it until I met him in Portland , Oregon at the beginning of one of the antiwar ... comes to read " Kaddish . " One can be startled by a poem like " Howl , ” and one can be delighted by a poem like ...
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... comes a tremendous understanding of the dark world and people who live on the other side of the billboard . J.M .: You do have that sense of the Dickensian lower world in many of your poems . But the sense of Dickensian laughter is ...
... comes a tremendous understanding of the dark world and people who live on the other side of the billboard . J.M .: You do have that sense of the Dickensian lower world in many of your poems . But the sense of Dickensian laughter is ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
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