Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... sometimes a play of pos- sibility and sometimes a genuinely new insight : like Tristram Shandy , they add something to this Fragment of Life . David Schubert miraculously found his critic after his death . I am thinking of the poet and ...
... sometimes a play of pos- sibility and sometimes a genuinely new insight : like Tristram Shandy , they add something to this Fragment of Life . David Schubert miraculously found his critic after his death . I am thinking of the poet and ...
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... sometimes very painful mess of being human . Yet I say at the end of the poem that this is what I have to be , human ... sometimes does . Sometimes it can . But there are plenty of poems , and good poems , that wouldn't necessarily do ...
... sometimes very painful mess of being human . Yet I say at the end of the poem that this is what I have to be , human ... sometimes does . Sometimes it can . But there are plenty of poems , and good poems , that wouldn't necessarily do ...
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... sometimes public and horribly shared , like war ; or they are domestic and affec- tionately , painfully shared , like the love a man achieves and fulfills for brother and son and wife ; and sometimes they are solitary , spiritual ...
... sometimes public and horribly shared , like war ; or they are domestic and affec- tionately , painfully shared , like the love a man achieves and fulfills for brother and son and wife ; and sometimes they are solitary , spiritual ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
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