Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... give body to a vision profoundly close to his best poems . It is a vision in the strictest sense embodied . Nothing could be more striking than the contrast , almost the contradiction , be- tween the character of Oak as it seems ...
... give body to a vision profoundly close to his best poems . It is a vision in the strictest sense embodied . Nothing could be more striking than the contrast , almost the contradiction , be- tween the character of Oak as it seems ...
Page 128
... give some metaphysical discourse in order to account for a plain fact which anybody can see with his own eyes . The disciples ask , " Teacher , whose sin was it that caused him to be born blind ? His own or his parents ' sin ? " I have ...
... give some metaphysical discourse in order to account for a plain fact which anybody can see with his own eyes . The disciples ask , " Teacher , whose sin was it that caused him to be born blind ? His own or his parents ' sin ? " I have ...
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... give the shadow justice , You let me tell you something : I have yearned In many another season for these days , And having them with God's own pageantry To make me glad for them , —yes , I have cursed The sunlight and the breezes and ...
... give the shadow justice , You let me tell you something : I have yearned In many another season for these days , And having them with God's own pageantry To make me glad for them , —yes , I have cursed The sunlight and the breezes and ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
Copyright | |
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