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Page 558
... feeling the fullness of her powers at the precise moment when she must not use them a woman sworn to lucidity ( " I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus , " 1968 ) Her pursuit of lucidity is made more difficult by the fact that the modes of ...
... feeling the fullness of her powers at the precise moment when she must not use them a woman sworn to lucidity ( " I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus , " 1968 ) Her pursuit of lucidity is made more difficult by the fact that the modes of ...
Page 670
... feeling that occasionally used to come over me at parties in town when the air was crowded with loud intel- lectual formulations - the feeling that there wasn't a remark in the room that couldn't be brought down with a common pin . The ...
... feeling that occasionally used to come over me at parties in town when the air was crowded with loud intel- lectual formulations - the feeling that there wasn't a remark in the room that couldn't be brought down with a common pin . The ...
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... feeling for Keats . Alice Meynell , her daughter Viola says , was so attached to Shakespeare that if a biography of her mother recorded only the history of her feelings and thoughts about him , there would be very few biographical facts ...
... feeling for Keats . Alice Meynell , her daughter Viola says , was so attached to Shakespeare that if a biography of her mother recorded only the history of her feelings and thoughts about him , there would be very few biographical facts ...
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