Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... seems to imply that Dickens is himself unconscious of the ambiguous nature of the artistic vision which he conveys . I have my doubts about Dickens ' unconsciousness in this matter . That is a biographical problem in the continuing ...
... seems to imply that Dickens is himself unconscious of the ambiguous nature of the artistic vision which he conveys . I have my doubts about Dickens ' unconsciousness in this matter . That is a biographical problem in the continuing ...
Page 155
... seem more willing to let the poems speak for themselves . Wright : That was a sort of Puritanical statement , wasn't it ? There's a certain pompousness about it , it seems to me now . W.H .: I suppose it's a young man's statement ...
... seem more willing to let the poems speak for themselves . Wright : That was a sort of Puritanical statement , wasn't it ? There's a certain pompousness about it , it seems to me now . W.H .: I suppose it's a young man's statement ...
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... seems to me just a matter of life and death for writers to pay special attention to this phenomenon and at least try to think clearly and to keep the language in close contact with reality . With a statement like , we have to wage war ...
... seems to me just a matter of life and death for writers to pay special attention to this phenomenon and at least try to think clearly and to keep the language in close contact with reality . With a statement like , we have to wage war ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
Copyright | |
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