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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Page 62
... darkness , Tibbald ( the misspelled name of one of his leading literary enemies ) , in his quest to found a great empire of dullness . Even now , in the Age of Efficiency , wireless , taped , and duped , we can respond to Pope's perora ...
... darkness , Tibbald ( the misspelled name of one of his leading literary enemies ) , in his quest to found a great empire of dullness . Even now , in the Age of Efficiency , wireless , taped , and duped , we can respond to Pope's perora ...
Page 152
... dark and I walk in . It is darker and I walk in . Some of Strand's best work echoes Christopher Smart , as in the witty poem that opens the collection , " The New Poetry Handbook " : If a man publicly denounces poetry his shoes will ...
... dark and I walk in . It is darker and I walk in . Some of Strand's best work echoes Christopher Smart , as in the witty poem that opens the collection , " The New Poetry Handbook " : If a man publicly denounces poetry his shoes will ...
Page 214
... Dark Houses , written in 1970 , for the next decade and a half , nearly all my poetry would take its beginning or ... Darkness , the collected poems of my friend L. E. 214.
... Dark Houses , written in 1970 , for the next decade and a half , nearly all my poetry would take its beginning or ... Darkness , the collected poems of my friend L. E. 214.
Contents
One of the Dangerous Trades | 3 |
The Great Predicament of Poetry | 11 |
The Refuge of the Present Tense | 17 |
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