American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney LanierLeonard Unger |
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... poet/persona in the course of the poem. Despite all the rocks and obstructions that her river of thought has encountered, she has continued to watch its "rivolets" take divergent paths toward earthly temptations. The mariner who is ...
... poet/persona in the course of the poem. Despite all the rocks and obstructions that her river of thought has encountered, she has continued to watch its "rivolets" take divergent paths toward earthly temptations. The mariner who is ...
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... poet of nature who found in the commonplace things of the natural world a source for reflection, critics often have sought to compare him with earlier poets who, like him, had developed their themes in descriptive poems of a philosophic ...
... poet of nature who found in the commonplace things of the natural world a source for reflection, critics often have sought to compare him with earlier poets who, like him, had developed their themes in descriptive poems of a philosophic ...
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... poet has sometimes been called a Puritan. This influence was strongly countered, however, by that of the poet's father. Peter Bryant, a medical man, was a much more liberal thinker and strongly influenced the boy toward the Unitarian ...
... poet has sometimes been called a Puritan. This influence was strongly countered, however, by that of the poet's father. Peter Bryant, a medical man, was a much more liberal thinker and strongly influenced the boy toward the Unitarian ...
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