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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... late in maturing ; but unlike Frost he was deliberate about it . He was engaged for five years before his marriage , and his only child was begotten fifteen years after that when he was forty - four , after his first book , Harmonium ...
... late in maturing ; but unlike Frost he was deliberate about it . He was engaged for five years before his marriage , and his only child was begotten fifteen years after that when he was forty - four , after his first book , Harmonium ...
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... late for me ) — Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles ' first LP . ( " Annus Mirabilis " ) In mid - career Larkin seems to have written with relative copiousness , though spurts of creativity alternated with peri- ods of ...
... late for me ) — Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the Beatles ' first LP . ( " Annus Mirabilis " ) In mid - career Larkin seems to have written with relative copiousness , though spurts of creativity alternated with peri- ods of ...
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... late 1957 , and I do not attribute it to choice , I began to write poems , the precise circumstances of which I have described elsewhere in this book , on pages 113 and 178. It seems I had to become part of New England , part of its ...
... late 1957 , and I do not attribute it to choice , I began to write poems , the precise circumstances of which I have described elsewhere in this book , on pages 113 and 178. It seems I had to become part of New England , part of its ...
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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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