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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... learned to hike in the mountains behind the Flatirons . I took up swimming and tennis and skating . I experienced the rigors of a climate starving for moisture by seeing to the watering of our own lawn and flowers . Colorado's air was ...
... learned to hike in the mountains behind the Flatirons . I took up swimming and tennis and skating . I experienced the rigors of a climate starving for moisture by seeing to the watering of our own lawn and flowers . Colorado's air was ...
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... learned to act in plays and sing Gilbert and Sullivan , had heard the poetry of E. E. Cummings and T. S. Eliot and Archibald MacLeish read aloud by a redoubtable English teacher who was the husband of MacLeish's sister ; had proved ...
... learned to act in plays and sing Gilbert and Sullivan , had heard the poetry of E. E. Cummings and T. S. Eliot and Archibald MacLeish read aloud by a redoubtable English teacher who was the husband of MacLeish's sister ; had proved ...
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... learned more about the nature of poetry by listening to the words of song while singing : the way poems and prayers took to the air gave me more vital understanding of the liveliness of the art than any college course did . Poetry didn ...
... learned more about the nature of poetry by listening to the words of song while singing : the way poems and prayers took to the air gave me more vital understanding of the liveliness of the art than any college course did . Poetry didn ...
Contents
One of the Dangerous Trades | 3 |
The Great Predicament of Poetry | 11 |
The Refuge of the Present Tense | 17 |
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