Collected ProseJames Wright, Anne Wright, Edith Anne Wright A collection of Wright's essays on the language of poetry |
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... turn your attention to the real world , and try to express it , for that is what the ancients did when they were alive " ( Conversations with Ecker- mann ) . And so in Whitman's music we find him turning away from one masterfully ...
... turn your attention to the real world , and try to express it , for that is what the ancients did when they were alive " ( Conversations with Ecker- mann ) . And so in Whitman's music we find him turning away from one masterfully ...
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... turn natu- rally — and necessarily , I believe — to a tradition of poetry like the Chinese . However they differ in time and place , they share an abiding radiance , a tenderness for places and persons and for other living creatures ...
... turn natu- rally — and necessarily , I believe — to a tradition of poetry like the Chinese . However they differ in time and place , they share an abiding radiance , a tenderness for places and persons and for other living creatures ...
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... turns and grinds on its amazing hinge , which opens the gate upon the poet's fierce secret : that the woman is beloved because of , and not in spite of , her perilousness : So , freshly turning , as the turn condones , For her I killed ...
... turns and grinds on its amazing hinge , which opens the gate upon the poet's fierce secret : that the woman is beloved because of , and not in spite of , her perilousness : So , freshly turning , as the turn condones , For her I killed ...
Contents
The Stiff Smile of Mr Warren | 239 |
The Terrible Threshold | 249 |
A Study and a Selection | 256 |
Copyright | |
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