Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... prose . Of course , Hardy could write startlingly bad prose sometimes . There is scarcely a novel which contains no signs of his awkwardness , his heavy - handed comparison of delicate women's faces with the sketches of some forgotten ...
... prose . Of course , Hardy could write startlingly bad prose sometimes . There is scarcely a novel which contains no signs of his awkwardness , his heavy - handed comparison of delicate women's faces with the sketches of some forgotten ...
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... prose pieces now and I did this because I liked prose and I wanted to express myself that way . I put some prose pieces in my last couple of books and some- times these have been called poems . They are not poems . They are prose pieces ...
... prose pieces now and I did this because I liked prose and I wanted to express myself that way . I put some prose pieces in my last couple of books and some- times these have been called poems . They are not poems . They are prose pieces ...
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... prose ? Wright : I do not understand much of that piece of mine in Field . What I was really trying to say was that I am impatient with arguments of this kind . I don't think that , in any deep sense , it makes a damn bit of difference ...
... prose ? Wright : I do not understand much of that piece of mine in Field . What I was really trying to say was that I am impatient with arguments of this kind . I don't think that , in any deep sense , it makes a damn bit of difference ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
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