Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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Page 63
... person transfigured . One cannot grasp the poetic structures of Shakespeare or Tolstoy without being born again ; and everyone knows how hard that can be . The second birth is as agonizing as the first . The third person who ought to be ...
... person transfigured . One cannot grasp the poetic structures of Shakespeare or Tolstoy without being born again ; and everyone knows how hard that can be . The second birth is as agonizing as the first . The third person who ought to be ...
Page 98
... person who was fully awake . How , Tho- reau wondered , could I have looked him in the face ? But we were probably as awake as we could be . And we were genuine . We all of us valued the person who can speak truly . We had come to do ...
... person who was fully awake . How , Tho- reau wondered , could I have looked him in the face ? But we were probably as awake as we could be . And we were genuine . We all of us valued the person who can speak truly . We had come to do ...
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... persons have told me about their own suf- fering from this same curious lack of what would seem , to any reasonable person , a normal and necessary foresight . A fisher- man who neglects to bring an adequate supply of beer is as ...
... persons have told me about their own suf- fering from this same curious lack of what would seem , to any reasonable person , a normal and necessary foresight . A fisher- man who neglects to bring an adequate supply of beer is as ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
Copyright | |
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