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In a malaise similar to Tony's, Paul Hammer is overtaken "on trains and planes" by a personal cafard, or carrier of the blues, whom he can escape only by summoning up images that represent to him "the excellence and beauty" he has lost.
In a malaise similar to Tony's, Paul Hammer is overtaken "on trains and planes" by a personal cafard, or carrier of the blues, whom he can escape only by summoning up images that represent to him "the excellence and beauty" he has lost.
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The poem has usually been read as one in which the excessive beauty of nature hurts the hypersensitive beholder, much as in Rainer Maria Rilke's first Duino elegy, where "das Schone ist nur des Schrecklichen Anfang" (beauty is only the ...
The poem has usually been read as one in which the excessive beauty of nature hurts the hypersensitive beholder, much as in Rainer Maria Rilke's first Duino elegy, where "das Schone ist nur des Schrecklichen Anfang" (beauty is only the ...
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There is also in H.D. , perhaps strongest of all, the cult of the worship of beauty, especially of the beauty of nature and of the struggle for survival of that beauty in adversity. For H.D., as much as for Keats, a thing of beauty is a ...
There is also in H.D. , perhaps strongest of all, the cult of the worship of beauty, especially of the beauty of nature and of the struggle for survival of that beauty in adversity. For H.D., as much as for Keats, a thing of beauty is a ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis supplement, the latest addition to the well-known "American Writers'' series, includes 29 authors. All except Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century orator and writer, are 20th-century poets ... Read full review
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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