American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney LanierLeonard Unger |
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... experience began in the elementary schools. But there, too often, programs emphasized basic skills acquired by rote; lessons that had little meaning for immigrant children (handicapped, as most of them were, by halting facility in ...
... experience began in the elementary schools. But there, too often, programs emphasized basic skills acquired by rote; lessons that had little meaning for immigrant children (handicapped, as most of them were, by halting facility in ...
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... experience, that is being offered us, not "reality." Although what I have called the "crisis point" of "In the Village" clearly relates to Elizabeth Bishop's experiences shortly before and soon after her mother was taken away from her ...
... experience, that is being offered us, not "reality." Although what I have called the "crisis point" of "In the Village" clearly relates to Elizabeth Bishop's experiences shortly before and soon after her mother was taken away from her ...
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... experience" that was certainly American. Ann Stanford quite rightly sees in these poems "a growing interest in the world of nature, for in the last of the quaternions, the New England landscape has become the landscape of home." However ...
... experience" that was certainly American. Ann Stanford quite rightly sees in these poems "a growing interest in the world of nature, for in the last of the quaternions, the New England landscape has become the landscape of home." However ...
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