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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... English class he used to hiss and sneer at the less intelligent responses of his fellow - freshmen ) , eventually became one of Lowell's teachers . As a poet he had less concern than other poets of his generation in trying to find " his ...
... English class he used to hiss and sneer at the less intelligent responses of his fellow - freshmen ) , eventually became one of Lowell's teachers . As a poet he had less concern than other poets of his generation in trying to find " his ...
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... English poetry virtually from the publication of his first long poem , An Essay in Criticism ( 1711 ) , until his death in 1744 , shortly after the publication of The Dunciad , that all - out attack on pedantry and dullness . Pope , as ...
... English poetry virtually from the publication of his first long poem , An Essay in Criticism ( 1711 ) , until his death in 1744 , shortly after the publication of The Dunciad , that all - out attack on pedantry and dullness . Pope , as ...
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... English cities . Though my father was born in Glasgow , on the fly , in 1898 ( followed by his sister Amy in 1902 ) , his mother did not marry Shields until 1917 , after she read in the papers that the first Mrs. Shields was dead . It ...
... English cities . Though my father was born in Glasgow , on the fly , in 1898 ( followed by his sister Amy in 1902 ) , his mother did not marry Shields until 1917 , after she read in the papers that the first Mrs. Shields was dead . It ...
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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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