Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... deal with some event in the distant past ; and the event , in both cases , involves insurrection in the form of mob violence . When we come to the two speeches , we find that , in A Tale of Two Cities , Dickens throws rose - water ...
... deal with some event in the distant past ; and the event , in both cases , involves insurrection in the form of mob violence . When we come to the two speeches , we find that , in A Tale of Two Cities , Dickens throws rose - water ...
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... deal with the most significant subject matter , and it only depends upon the poet for the highest achievements of poetry to be attained even in this form . The Novelle is no longer what it once was , “ the succinct presentation of an ...
... deal with the most significant subject matter , and it only depends upon the poet for the highest achievements of poetry to be attained even in this form . The Novelle is no longer what it once was , “ the succinct presentation of an ...
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... deals movingly with the moment when surveying the clutter of American life , he seems to decide to put off ambition and to be true to the imagination . The poem is called " Nooksack Valley . " The poet has been sitting in a berry ...
... deals movingly with the moment when surveying the clutter of American life , he seems to decide to put off ambition and to be true to the imagination . The poem is called " Nooksack Valley . " The poet has been sitting in a berry ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
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