Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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Page 83
... poem he sought ; and then he spoke it with the voice of a resurrected blackbird . His entire manner was one of enormous patience , and he read Trakl's poems very slowly . I believe that patience is the clue to the understanding of Trakl's ...
... poem he sought ; and then he spoke it with the voice of a resurrected blackbird . His entire manner was one of enormous patience , and he read Trakl's poems very slowly . I believe that patience is the clue to the understanding of Trakl's ...
Page 182
... poems I had written after I had translated some Spanish poems . And probably he was right . I was too heavily , too directly influenced by them . Nev- ertheless , I don't regret trying to write things like that because at that ...
... poems I had written after I had translated some Spanish poems . And probably he was right . I was too heavily , too directly influenced by them . Nev- ertheless , I don't regret trying to write things like that because at that ...
Page 257
... poems ; and he identifies and explores the " pattern " which Hardy sustains among poems written during a period of some seventy years . The pattern is " simply the eternal conflict between irreconcila- bles . " Mr. Hynes invigorates the ...
... poems ; and he identifies and explores the " pattern " which Hardy sustains among poems written during a period of some seventy years . The pattern is " simply the eternal conflict between irreconcila- bles . " Mr. Hynes invigorates the ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
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