American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney LanierLeonard Unger |
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... Street, in which autobiography serves to reinforce rather than diminish the racial and social themes. Here Baldwin's personal tone is almost devoid of self-pity. He can even state that he must seem to an old childhood friend and to his ...
... Street, in which autobiography serves to reinforce rather than diminish the racial and social themes. Here Baldwin's personal tone is almost devoid of self-pity. He can even state that he must seem to an old childhood friend and to his ...
Page 110
... street must also have pondered the meaning of the New World. Her poetry indicates a concern with politics. She attended sermons in which American ministers, using all their exegetical and hermeneutical skill, extracted from the Bible ...
... street must also have pondered the meaning of the New World. Her poetry indicates a concern with politics. She attended sermons in which American ministers, using all their exegetical and hermeneutical skill, extracted from the Bible ...
Page 120
... street comes close to making the natural sun more important than God; but throughout this section Bradstreet has in mind the pun on sun and Son, for she uses Christological imagery: "Thou as a Bridegroom from thy Chamber rushes. " By ...
... street comes close to making the natural sun more important than God; but throughout this section Bradstreet has in mind the pun on sun and Son, for she uses Christological imagery: "Thou as a Bridegroom from thy Chamber rushes. " By ...
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