Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... eye can penetrate to the absurdity or the night- mare that may lie behind the most ordinary appearances . In Barnaby Rudge , the artist's imagination looks through the eye of a madman , and what it sees is very finely suggested by a ...
... eye can penetrate to the absurdity or the night- mare that may lie behind the most ordinary appearances . In Barnaby Rudge , the artist's imagination looks through the eye of a madman , and what it sees is very finely suggested by a ...
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... eyes . The disciples ask , " Teacher , whose sin was it that caused him to be born blind ? His own or his parents ' sin ? " I have always loved that question . It makes me feel like a disciple . It is a silly question , the kind that I ...
... eyes . The disciples ask , " Teacher , whose sin was it that caused him to be born blind ? His own or his parents ' sin ? " I have always loved that question . It makes me feel like a disciple . It is a silly question , the kind that I ...
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... eyes . The story is familiar enough , and I need not recount how the Pharisees , whose political power certainly exceeded that of Dr. Hoover , and at least equaled that of the Schutzstaffell , grilled the parents and neighbors of the ...
... eyes . The story is familiar enough , and I need not recount how the Pharisees , whose political power certainly exceeded that of Dr. Hoover , and at least equaled that of the Schutzstaffell , grilled the parents and neighbors of the ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
Copyright | |
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