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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... face to face with poets poets poets , not only those aspirants my own age , hauling in manu- scripts hoping for publication , but the old giants . T. S. Eliot turned up one day , with his deacon's white handkerchief peer- ing from the ...
... face to face with poets poets poets , not only those aspirants my own age , hauling in manu- scripts hoping for publication , but the old giants . T. S. Eliot turned up one day , with his deacon's white handkerchief peer- ing from the ...
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... look into my heart , I discover none of the great subjects : death , friendship , love and hate- only old china doorknobs , sad , slight useless things to calm the mad . ( 1965 ) When will we see Him face to face ? Each 44.
... look into my heart , I discover none of the great subjects : death , friendship , love and hate- only old china doorknobs , sad , slight useless things to calm the mad . ( 1965 ) When will we see Him face to face ? Each 44.
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... face to face with the memory of war , with the painfulness of the past remembered , and it embodied his theme in a narra- tive setting . He could no longer confine himself to sequences of images clustered around a central statement that ...
... face to face with the memory of war , with the painfulness of the past remembered , and it embodied his theme in a narra- tive setting . He could no longer confine himself to sequences of images clustered around a central statement that ...
Contents
One of the Dangerous Trades | 3 |
The Great Predicament of Poetry | 11 |
The Refuge of the Present Tense | 17 |
Copyright | |
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