Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... once undreamed - of and inevitable . I have avoided the term " organic unity " because I wanted to read Whitman's poem afresh ; and I am afraid that we might confuse the philosophical definition of a term in aesthetics with our ...
... once undreamed - of and inevitable . I have avoided the term " organic unity " because I wanted to read Whitman's poem afresh ; and I am afraid that we might confuse the philosophical definition of a term in aesthetics with our ...
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... once said he looked like a face painted on a balloon . He did various things . Once he went to Israel and told people that he was the President of Verranzo College . Of course , there is no Verranzo College . Once when he was running ...
... once said he looked like a face painted on a balloon . He did various things . Once he went to Israel and told people that he was the President of Verranzo College . Of course , there is no Verranzo College . Once when he was running ...
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... once in a while . And when he smiled , his eyes gleamed with a wickedness of almost super- natural beauty . He wore an upper denture , which he some- times could wiggle with his tongue into positions so improbably ugly and grotesque ...
... once in a while . And when he smiled , his eyes gleamed with a wickedness of almost super- natural beauty . He wore an upper denture , which he some- times could wiggle with his tongue into positions so improbably ugly and grotesque ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
Copyright | |
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