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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... feel that there was nothing to hide , nothing that he and you could not understand together as long as you could ... feeling uplifted , late at night after I had walked him home in Cambridge or Amherst and he had walked me back home ...
... feel that there was nothing to hide , nothing that he and you could not understand together as long as you could ... feeling uplifted , late at night after I had walked him home in Cambridge or Amherst and he had walked me back home ...
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... feel greater happiness for his successes than her own . But women ? Women are competitors . The real subject here ... feeling like a numb , blind , blank - eyed , stony , earthenware head , all words and phrases that recur in her poetry ...
... feel greater happiness for his successes than her own . But women ? Women are competitors . The real subject here ... feeling like a numb , blind , blank - eyed , stony , earthenware head , all words and phrases that recur in her poetry ...
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... feels circularly unattended , abandoned , un- accompanied , alone , as in the poems of Matthew Arnold . Sel- dom can there have been a comparable body of work that was so accomplished in terms of sound , so versatile in reaching out for ...
... feels circularly unattended , abandoned , un- accompanied , alone , as in the poems of Matthew Arnold . Sel- dom can there have been a comparable body of work that was so accomplished in terms of sound , so versatile in reaching out for ...
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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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