Major Writers of America, Volume 1Perry Miller Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 - Literary Criticism Selections from the writings of fifteen important American authors, including portions of novels, short stories, prose and poems. |
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... Death held illimitable dominion over all . THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM THIS WAS first published in The Gift ( 1843 ) . Poe thought of dream - experience as unlocking the secrets of death and afterlife , and the story is therefore a triple ...
... Death held illimitable dominion over all . THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM THIS WAS first published in The Gift ( 1843 ) . Poe thought of dream - experience as unlocking the secrets of death and afterlife , and the story is therefore a triple ...
Page 981
... death " is the source and beginning of " poetry " ; with " death " here understood to in- volve several kinds and sensations of loss , of suffering , of disempowering guilt , of psychic fragmentation ; and " poetry " as the awakening of ...
... death " is the source and beginning of " poetry " ; with " death " here understood to in- volve several kinds and sensations of loss , of suffering , of disempowering guilt , of psychic fragmentation ; and " poetry " as the awakening of ...
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... death . Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me , And the thought of death close - walking the other side of me , And I in the middle as with companions , and as holding the hands of companions , I fled forth to the ...
... death . Then with the knowledge of death as walking one side of me , And the thought of death close - walking the other side of me , And I in the middle as with companions , and as holding the hands of companions , I fled forth to the ...
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Samuel Eliot Morison | 10 |
Of the Troubles That Befell | 16 |
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