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 154
... kind of Frostian matrix is provided through his poetic representation of thought , in various forms of inner and outer dialogue , to provide counterbalanced ways of looking at one and the same thing . Mountain Interval ( 1916 ) takes ...
... kind of Frostian matrix is provided through his poetic representation of thought , in various forms of inner and outer dialogue , to provide counterbalanced ways of looking at one and the same thing . Mountain Interval ( 1916 ) takes ...
Page 560
... kind but de- tached . Doris Grumbach tells us that a former Vassar classmate , now a psychiatrist , remem- bers that at college Mary McCarthy was " aloof , independent , irrelevant . . . lonely , ' seemingly rootless because she ...
... kind but de- tached . Doris Grumbach tells us that a former Vassar classmate , now a psychiatrist , remem- bers that at college Mary McCarthy was " aloof , independent , irrelevant . . . lonely , ' seemingly rootless because she ...
Page 581
... kind of tone deafness , that Peter is a " prig , " without " passions or contradictions , " and Rosamund is an " overcultivated cipher , " seems to rest on the assumption that passion must be sexual or at least noisy - and that ...
... kind of tone deafness , that Peter is a " prig , " without " passions or contradictions , " and Rosamund is an " overcultivated cipher , " seems to rest on the assumption that passion must be sexual or at least noisy - and that ...
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