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This, of course, is directly related to what has happened to the 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 ...
This, of course, is directly related to what has happened to the 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 ...
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Because he was a 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 ...
Because he was a 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 ...
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If he affirms an ordered world in his verse, it is not the deistic order of Thomson's The Seasons; if his poetic vision ... The religious training the young boy received at his hands left such a mark upon him that Bryant the mature poet ...
If he affirms an ordered world in his verse, it is not the deistic order of Thomson's The Seasons; if his poetic vision ... The religious training the young boy received at his hands left such a mark upon him that Bryant the mature poet ...
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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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