Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... matter for speculation , whether scholarly or amateur . A friend of mine recently told me of a medium who claimed to have been in touch with Dickens during a seance . When she asked him what sort of thing he did to while away the time ...
... matter for speculation , whether scholarly or amateur . A friend of mine recently told me of a medium who claimed to have been in touch with Dickens during a seance . When she asked him what sort of thing he did to while away the time ...
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... matter of accident , in part ; but it is also a matter of intelligent self - discipline ; it would be easy for a writer with such a delicate ear to lose himself and his vision in a euphonious haze , but I cannot find a single phrase in ...
... matter of accident , in part ; but it is also a matter of intelligent self - discipline ; it would be easy for a writer with such a delicate ear to lose himself and his vision in a euphonious haze , but I cannot find a single phrase in ...
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... matter , for all I know , Ed Bedford may have been the game warden . We bought his beer at his price . And we drank it . It was obvious that I cannot hope to be a prose stylist like , say , Harold Robbins , Jacquelin Susann , Faith ...
... matter , for all I know , Ed Bedford may have been the game warden . We bought his beer at his price . And we drank it . It was obvious that I cannot hope to be a prose stylist like , say , Harold Robbins , Jacquelin Susann , Faith ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
Copyright | |
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