Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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Page 154
... trying very hard to write in the mode of Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson , that you wanted to say some- thing humanly important instead of just showing off with language . Did you have in mind then primarily a thematic ...
... trying very hard to write in the mode of Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson , that you wanted to say some- thing humanly important instead of just showing off with language . Did you have in mind then primarily a thematic ...
Page 182
... trying to write things like that because at that particular time I was trying to reach outside , rather , reach deliberately beyond the range of a certain way that I had been trying to write before . And I had to take some risks . And ...
... trying to write things like that because at that particular time I was trying to reach outside , rather , reach deliberately beyond the range of a certain way that I had been trying to write before . And I had to take some risks . And ...
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... trying to say was that I am impatient with arguments of this kind . I don't think that , in any deep sense , it makes a damn bit of difference whether or not one is writing in prose or in verse , just so he's trying to be imaginative ...
... trying to say was that I am impatient with arguments of this kind . I don't think that , in any deep sense , it makes a damn bit of difference whether or not one is writing in prose or in verse , just so he's trying to be imaginative ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
Copyright | |
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