Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... hope , to contribute oneself to the continuity of life , and also to surrender one's own egotism to the larger movement of things . It may not even be a hope . Edward Thomas was wounded and sent back to England and told , since he was a ...
... hope , to contribute oneself to the continuity of life , and also to surrender one's own egotism to the larger movement of things . It may not even be a hope . Edward Thomas was wounded and sent back to England and told , since he was a ...
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... hope in this world . And , along with this , there was his recognition , you could call it psychological or moral , that hope in human beings is abso- lutely necessary for us to go on living . His characters are always trying to live as ...
... hope in this world . And , along with this , there was his recognition , you could call it psychological or moral , that hope in human beings is abso- lutely necessary for us to go on living . His characters are always trying to live as ...
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... hope he had a good easy death , as I hope I will some day have one , too . I look back over the sometimes confusing years , and I re- member with affection several people who were believers . I am not myself what I would call a man of ...
... hope he had a good easy death , as I hope I will some day have one , too . I look back over the sometimes confusing years , and I re- member with affection several people who were believers . I am not myself what I would call a man of ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
Copyright | |
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