One of the Dangerous Trades: Essays on the Work and Workings of PoetryAn examination of the poet's place in society as seen by a poet who is also a publisher. |
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... England " ) Hill's earlier Mercian Hymns confronted the State , an institu- tion of his island ; now , in Tenebrae , he confronts the Church . The heart of the book , perhaps , beats in two gorgeously writ- ten sonnet sequences ...
... England " ) Hill's earlier Mercian Hymns confronted the State , an institu- tion of his island ; now , in Tenebrae , he confronts the Church . The heart of the book , perhaps , beats in two gorgeously writ- ten sonnet sequences ...
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... England by his third wife , Caroline Guinness , yet kept being drawn back to Elizabeth Hardwick , his second , in New York . He died of natural causes , if you can call it that , in a taxicab bound from Kennedy air- port to Elizabeth ...
... England by his third wife , Caroline Guinness , yet kept being drawn back to Elizabeth Hardwick , his second , in New York . He died of natural causes , if you can call it that , in a taxicab bound from Kennedy air- port to Elizabeth ...
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... England , sailing on August 23 , 1912. In England they spent over two years living in this place and that , some- times under thatch . In London Frost made the poet - friends whom he could never have met in Lawrence , Massachusetts ...
... England , sailing on August 23 , 1912. In England they spent over two years living in this place and that , some- times under thatch . In London Frost made the poet - friends whom he could never have met in Lawrence , Massachusetts ...
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One of the Dangerous Trades | 3 |
The Great Predicament of Poetry | 11 |
The Refuge of the Present Tense | 17 |
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