Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... talking about . There's nothing he can do about the pain of the man's failure . Wright : And it's a strange kind of pain to relate to . That poem really originated many years ago , when I was a boy . My brother had a small boat . He was ...
... talking about . There's nothing he can do about the pain of the man's failure . Wright : And it's a strange kind of pain to relate to . That poem really originated many years ago , when I was a boy . My brother had a small boat . He was ...
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... talking about a few poems I had written after I had translated some Spanish poems . And probably he was right . I was too heavily , too directly influenced by them . Nev- ertheless , I don't regret trying to write things like that ...
... talking about a few poems I had written after I had translated some Spanish poems . And probably he was right . I was too heavily , too directly influenced by them . Nev- ertheless , I don't regret trying to write things like that ...
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... talks about true rhetoric . I mean the proper words in the proper places . That's all . We have men- tioned Robert ... talk about such matters when one is dealing with comic poetry because there , as Auden pointed out , the form is ...
... talks about true rhetoric . I mean the proper words in the proper places . That's all . We have men- tioned Robert ... talk about such matters when one is dealing with comic poetry because there , as Auden pointed out , the form is ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
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