Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... things . Ah , but we have our inner life , do we not ? We have what Virgil meant when he talked about the lacrimae rerum , the tears of things , the ancient pity of things . That pity is ancient . Nixon doesn't pity anything . But the ...
... things . Ah , but we have our inner life , do we not ? We have what Virgil meant when he talked about the lacrimae rerum , the tears of things , the ancient pity of things . That pity is ancient . Nixon doesn't pity anything . But the ...
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... things will come out in his poems inevitably . In the poem called “ To a Blossoming Pear Tree " I am talking about addressing the beauty of Nature , which is nonhuman . It suggests to me some- times the perfection of things and I envy ...
... things will come out in his poems inevitably . In the poem called “ To a Blossoming Pear Tree " I am talking about addressing the beauty of Nature , which is nonhuman . It suggests to me some- times the perfection of things and I envy ...
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... things . I hope that poetry , and the poetry of nature , has a similar power . Roethke said a beautiful thing once when he talked to a class about the poetry of nature . He said that we ought to remember that there is an inner nature ...
... things . I hope that poetry , and the poetry of nature , has a similar power . Roethke said a beautiful thing once when he talked to a class about the poetry of nature . He said that we ought to remember that there is an inner nature ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
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