Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... imagination ; in the sensitive wholeness of the single poems which result from such imaginative courage ; and , above all , in the belief in the imagination as the highest flowering of human life ( the phrase belongs to Jorge Guillen ) ...
... imagination ; in the sensitive wholeness of the single poems which result from such imaginative courage ; and , above all , in the belief in the imagination as the highest flowering of human life ( the phrase belongs to Jorge Guillen ) ...
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... imagination totally , if temporarily , freed from all concern with abstract ideas . The Eastern writer , such as Mr. Schwartz or Mr. Trilling , does not . Mr. Trilling , thor- oughly aware of the existence of the West and the Midwest ...
... imagination totally , if temporarily , freed from all concern with abstract ideas . The Eastern writer , such as Mr. Schwartz or Mr. Trilling , does not . Mr. Trilling , thor- oughly aware of the existence of the West and the Midwest ...
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... imagination for which Whitman often felt poets in America should prove most capable : the exploration of living traditions which , shunning the British tradition , nonetheless display powers of poetry which equal and sometimes surpass ...
... imagination for which Whitman often felt poets in America should prove most capable : the exploration of living traditions which , shunning the British tradition , nonetheless display powers of poetry which equal and sometimes surpass ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
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