Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... fact that Dickens was a popular writer in the strict sense of the word . His concern for the response of his public is always an essential fact about him , however one may wish to interpret it . I turn , then , to this popular mystery ...
... fact that Dickens was a popular writer in the strict sense of the word . His concern for the response of his public is always an essential fact about him , however one may wish to interpret it . I turn , then , to this popular mystery ...
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... fact , is in following his long , careful distinctions of terms . In fact , he does not speak con- temptuously of the " common man , " but of the " mass man . " The latter is not a social class — perhaps I should say he is not a member ...
... fact , is in following his long , careful distinctions of terms . In fact , he does not speak con- temptuously of the " common man , " but of the " mass man . " The latter is not a social class — perhaps I should say he is not a member ...
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... fact like a reddleman , a discon- tented wife , a hayrick , a Stonehenge . Hardy is trapped with it . His poems ... facts of the first importance . The traditional elegiac mood becomes in Hardy a funeral for God Himself ; and the modest ...
... fact like a reddleman , a discon- tented wife , a hayrick , a Stonehenge . Hardy is trapped with it . His poems ... facts of the first importance . The traditional elegiac mood becomes in Hardy a funeral for God Himself ; and the modest ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
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