Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... ideas on the matter . But start to analyse those ideas and you will find that they hardly reflect in any way the reality to which they appear to refer , and if you go deeper you will discover that there is not even an attempt to adjust ...
... ideas on the matter . But start to analyse those ideas and you will find that they hardly reflect in any way the reality to which they appear to refer , and if you go deeper you will discover that there is not even an attempt to adjust ...
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... Idea of the Good . " Can you speak of the dif- ference between drawing a moral and the ideas implied in these titles ? Wright : I only used the phrase " the morality of poetry " once and it is the title of that poem in St. Judas . What ...
... Idea of the Good . " Can you speak of the dif- ference between drawing a moral and the ideas implied in these titles ? Wright : I only used the phrase " the morality of poetry " once and it is the title of that poem in St. Judas . What ...
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... idea . It was my own uncle , for Christ's sake . " Knott just looked at me for a long moment . Then he asked if I would please come back to his room with him for a minute . Still furious , I went along . I had no idea what he had in ...
... idea . It was my own uncle , for Christ's sake . " Knott just looked at me for a long moment . Then he asked if I would please come back to his room with him for a minute . Still furious , I went along . I had no idea what he had in ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
Copyright | |
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