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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... never gets stated : “ Its unsaid part is its best part . " A decade after the Coral Gables photograph , just after the opening of my Harvard freshman year in September 1945 , when I was seventeen and he seventy - one , I met Frost again ...
... never gets stated : “ Its unsaid part is its best part . " A decade after the Coral Gables photograph , just after the opening of my Harvard freshman year in September 1945 , when I was seventeen and he seventy - one , I met Frost again ...
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... never liked Moby - Dick much , ” Frost con- fessed . " Too long . Too much about whale meat . I always pre- ferred his little stories , the first ones , Omoo and Typee . " As a boy who had never yet conquered more than the opening ...
... never liked Moby - Dick much , ” Frost con- fessed . " Too long . Too much about whale meat . I always pre- ferred his little stories , the first ones , Omoo and Typee . " As a boy who had never yet conquered more than the opening ...
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... never demanded the things my real mother did . . . . I never saw any reason to reconsider my vision of Boston as bound up in those two people . " * Bos- ton had set its seal upon his heart , and both his life and his work would be ...
... never demanded the things my real mother did . . . . I never saw any reason to reconsider my vision of Boston as bound up in those two people . " * Bos- ton had set its seal upon his heart , and both his life and his work would be ...
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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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