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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... line of Williams's might even describe the position of poetry now , forked as it is between our preconceptions of ... lines we read in the magazines ? Stanley Kunitz , with characteristic depth and irony , has written that poetry ...
... line of Williams's might even describe the position of poetry now , forked as it is between our preconceptions of ... lines we read in the magazines ? Stanley Kunitz , with characteristic depth and irony , has written that poetry ...
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... lines have been deleted and substitutions made , not I fear for the better . The deleted lines are in italics . Oh to break loose like the chinook salmon jumping and falling back , nosing up to the impossible stone and bone - crushing ...
... lines have been deleted and substitutions made , not I fear for the better . The deleted lines are in italics . Oh to break loose like the chinook salmon jumping and falling back , nosing up to the impossible stone and bone - crushing ...
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... lines could be extended . How often we find ourselves quoting Pope without knowing it : his words fill seventeen columns of the latest edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations , more space than is granted any other English poet save ...
... lines could be extended . How often we find ourselves quoting Pope without knowing it : his words fill seventeen columns of the latest edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations , more space than is granted any other English poet save ...
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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