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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... talk of sex as much as we like ; we cannot bring ourselves to talk of money . If the novel , in the hands of Jane Austen and George Eliot , talked frankly of great expectations and livings and in- heritances and marriage settlements ...
... talk of sex as much as we like ; we cannot bring ourselves to talk of money . If the novel , in the hands of Jane Austen and George Eliot , talked frankly of great expectations and livings and in- heritances and marriage settlements ...
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... talk at the time of the move from Lawrence to Derry in 1900 .... Frost had gradually modified his way of talking . He deliber- ately imitated the manner in which his neighbors uncon- sciously slurred words , dropped endings , and ...
... talk at the time of the move from Lawrence to Derry in 1900 .... Frost had gradually modified his way of talking . He deliber- ately imitated the manner in which his neighbors uncon- sciously slurred words , dropped endings , and ...
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... talk about the line , " only in my flesh / shall I see God , " in your poem “ Two Midrashim ” ? I have trouble with the more austere ruminations of St. Paul- with putting the flesh aside . To me the Old Testament - from which those ...
... talk about the line , " only in my flesh / shall I see God , " in your poem “ Two Midrashim ” ? I have trouble with the more austere ruminations of St. Paul- with putting the flesh aside . To me the Old Testament - from which those ...
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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