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 59
... brother and Sonny's friend talk at the beginning , they hear from a nearby bar " black and bouncy " music to which a barmaid keeps time . The brothers ' uncle is carrying his guitar on the last night of his life . Sonny's idol is ...
... brother and Sonny's friend talk at the beginning , they hear from a nearby bar " black and bouncy " music to which a barmaid keeps time . The brothers ' uncle is carrying his guitar on the last night of his life . Sonny's idol is ...
Page 142
... brother who had driven off her lover , Sares- field , and had been exiled , with her approval , for various crimes . Her conviction that she and her brother would die at the same time led her to dismiss reports of his death at sea ...
... brother who had driven off her lover , Sares- field , and had been exiled , with her approval , for various crimes . Her conviction that she and her brother would die at the same time led her to dismiss reports of his death at sea ...
Page 176
... brother's . Lawrence does not like the sea ; to the narrator , it represents " the rich green soup of life . " Where ... brother , and in exasperation blood- ies his head with a blow - a foreshadowing of Ezekiel Farragut's murder of his ...
... brother's . Lawrence does not like the sea ; to the narrator , it represents " the rich green soup of life . " Where ... brother , and in exasperation blood- ies his head with a blow - a foreshadowing of Ezekiel Farragut's murder of his ...
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