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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... Poet " makes specific appli- cation of these beliefs . Ideally , the poet is the sayer , the teller of news , utterer of the nec- essary and causal . " For the Universe has three children , born at one time , which reappear under ...
... Poet " makes specific appli- cation of these beliefs . Ideally , the poet is the sayer , the teller of news , utterer of the nec- essary and causal . " For the Universe has three children , born at one time , which reappear under ...
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... poet's youthful growth , in a wavering progres- sion of subjective moods . Independent search- ings , questionings , doubtings , affirmings , cher- ishings are dramatically and poetically real- ized . The sequence begins with the poet's ...
... poet's youthful growth , in a wavering progres- sion of subjective moods . Independent search- ings , questionings , doubtings , affirmings , cher- ishings are dramatically and poetically real- ized . The sequence begins with the poet's ...
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... poet stirs just before dawn ; possessed by a sublime dream of freedom , he imagines himself a chi- nook salmon breaking loose from the sea to clear a waterfall - an Adamic man . But the dawn brings " blackout , " domestic data that keep ...
... poet stirs just before dawn ; possessed by a sublime dream of freedom , he imagines himself a chi- nook salmon breaking loose from the sea to clear a waterfall - an Adamic man . But the dawn brings " blackout , " domestic data that keep ...
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