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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... father chose to name the child after the South's most distinguished general , Robert E. Lee . Further contraries are suggested by the mo- tives for that naming . The poet's father , Wil- liam Prescott Frost , was descended from a pu ...
... father chose to name the child after the South's most distinguished general , Robert E. Lee . Further contraries are suggested by the mo- tives for that naming . The poet's father , Wil- liam Prescott Frost , was descended from a pu ...
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... father ; four men hold the mother down until the child is born . When it is over the doctor looks in the bunk above and dis- covers that the husband , who has listened to the screaming for two days , has cut his head nearly off with a ...
... father ; four men hold the mother down until the child is born . When it is over the doctor looks in the bunk above and dis- covers that the husband , who has listened to the screaming for two days , has cut his head nearly off with a ...
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... father's social and re- ligious theories , which inculcated the need for freedom , spontaneity , and innocence . The in- nocence of the infant should be protected as long as possible to give his innate divine cre- ativity a chance to ...
... father's social and re- ligious theories , which inculcated the need for freedom , spontaneity , and innocence . The in- nocence of the infant should be protected as long as possible to give his innate divine cre- ativity a chance to ...
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