American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Vachel Lindsay to Elinor Wylie. supplement I.. part 2Contains biographical and critical essays on the work of important American writers. Presents scholar-signed essays prepared by experts in the field. |
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Page 246
... Farmer says , that he will ever write - by the events of the American Revolu- tion . For the Farmer , the central meaning of the Revolution is that his society has come apart at the seams . Once happiness was our portion ; now it is ...
... Farmer says , that he will ever write - by the events of the American Revolu- tion . For the Farmer , the central meaning of the Revolution is that his society has come apart at the seams . Once happiness was our portion ; now it is ...
Page 248
... Farmer plans to prevent his children from growing wild . But he has an even deeper fear than that of wildness . He does not want his daughter to marry an Indian ; and so the son of a neighbor , who is in love with her , is to accompany ...
... Farmer plans to prevent his children from growing wild . But he has an even deeper fear than that of wildness . He does not want his daughter to marry an Indian ; and so the son of a neighbor , who is in love with her , is to accompany ...
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... farmer should resist the temptation to mortgage his land in order to get the money he needed to make his crop - is presented in " Nine from Eight . " In this poem the narrator is driving toward Macon with some surplus food for sale when ...
... farmer should resist the temptation to mortgage his land in order to get the money he needed to make his crop - is presented in " Nine from Eight . " In this poem the narrator is driving toward Macon with some surplus food for sale when ...
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