Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... rhetoric , but only through imagination . Whitman can teach current American poets to destroy their own rhetoric and trust their own imagination . I shudder to think what would happen if every current versifier in America were to do ...
... rhetoric , but only through imagination . Whitman can teach current American poets to destroy their own rhetoric and trust their own imagination . I shudder to think what would happen if every current versifier in America were to do ...
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... rhetoric that Americans have seized upon so that we can tell one another how neurotic we are instead of facing our genuine human tragic problems . Her novel is about life in Marin County , California and nobody can say or do anything ...
... rhetoric that Americans have seized upon so that we can tell one another how neurotic we are instead of facing our genuine human tragic problems . Her novel is about life in Marin County , California and nobody can say or do anything ...
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... rhetoric is necessary to an understanding of his poetry in all three volumes . Current academic rhetoric does not illuminate the poet's vision , but insulates it from the shock of the reader's imagina- tion . The effect is a kind of ...
... rhetoric is necessary to an understanding of his poetry in all three volumes . Current academic rhetoric does not illuminate the poet's vision , but insulates it from the shock of the reader's imagina- tion . The effect is a kind of ...
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The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
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