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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... Harvard in November of 1944 , full - grown ( six - four , two hundred pounds ) but not yet seventeen . His assigned roommate is " a tall , courtly with- drawn youth who was so steeped in the Brahmin tradition that he sometimes seemed ...
... Harvard in November of 1944 , full - grown ( six - four , two hundred pounds ) but not yet seventeen . His assigned roommate is " a tall , courtly with- drawn youth who was so steeped in the Brahmin tradition that he sometimes seemed ...
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... Harvard was not what I had expected : it was not what anyone had expected . Within ninety days after my matricula- tion in 1945 the buildings and classrooms filled to bursting with war veterans returned from the Murmansk Run , from New ...
... Harvard was not what I had expected : it was not what anyone had expected . Within ninety days after my matricula- tion in 1945 the buildings and classrooms filled to bursting with war veterans returned from the Murmansk Run , from New ...
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... Harvard did much to make me “ well educated , " my studies did little to make me a poet . Abbott Lawrence Lowell is reputed to have burbled , " When we find a spark of talent at Harvard , we water it . " But I must not blame Harvard ...
... Harvard did much to make me “ well educated , " my studies did little to make me a poet . Abbott Lawrence Lowell is reputed to have burbled , " When we find a spark of talent at Harvard , we water it . " But I must not blame Harvard ...
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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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