Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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Page 148
... possible for a man to live forever in a split second . It's possible for someone to live eighty - five years and not get a prayer of what it's about . Now , this is a theological argument , but it's also a logical argument and a ...
... possible for a man to live forever in a split second . It's possible for someone to live eighty - five years and not get a prayer of what it's about . Now , this is a theological argument , but it's also a logical argument and a ...
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... possible and to try to write any of them well is a good thing . That is the morality of poetry , as far as I am concerned . “ The Idea of the Good " is a very , very confused poem . I don't have the faintest idea what it means . I can't ...
... possible and to try to write any of them well is a good thing . That is the morality of poetry , as far as I am concerned . “ The Idea of the Good " is a very , very confused poem . I don't have the faintest idea what it means . I can't ...
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... possible that the stranger had enough sense to make sure we weren't likely to be receiving a cordial social visit from a railroad dick ( we had built our fire only a few yards from the B & O railroad track ) who was acquainted with us ...
... possible that the stranger had enough sense to make sure we weren't likely to be receiving a cordial social visit from a railroad dick ( we had built our fire only a few yards from the B & O railroad track ) who was acquainted with us ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
Copyright | |
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