American Writers: A Collection of Literary BiographiesLeonard Unger, A. Walton Litz, Molly Weigel, Lea Bechler, Jay Parini Scribner, 1974 - American literature The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated. |
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Page 82
... career he still recommends what were evidently his own college practices to his daughter . To form a prose style she must read the poets over and over . If she has anything of an ear she will soon hear the difference between poetry and ...
... career he still recommends what were evidently his own college practices to his daughter . To form a prose style she must read the poets over and over . If she has anything of an ear she will soon hear the difference between poetry and ...
Page 126
... career could be fulfilled . At the time Frederic was preocupied with thoughts of fame which might transcend death . " Worse than the terrors of dissolution itself is the fear that death may bring forgetfulness . The old- est graven ...
... career could be fulfilled . At the time Frederic was preocupied with thoughts of fame which might transcend death . " Worse than the terrors of dissolution itself is the fear that death may bring forgetfulness . The old- est graven ...
Page 220
... career : we are never in his inmost self . An excessively analytic approach would have been inappro- priate for a man who claims to be " slow of wit " ; but still , as a psychic entity , Heracles is pallid . Nor do the other characters ...
... career : we are never in his inmost self . An excessively analytic approach would have been inappro- priate for a man who claims to be " slow of wit " ; but still , as a psychic entity , Heracles is pallid . Nor do the other characters ...
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