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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... critics , that essays on women writers would be written by women scholars and critics . As it turns out , there are some excep- tions to this policy , but such essays justify themselves by their own terms and their own merit . If there ...
... critics , that essays on women writers would be written by women scholars and critics . As it turns out , there are some excep- tions to this policy , but such essays justify themselves by their own terms and their own merit . If there ...
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... critics of Bishop's early work praised it for its immacu- lately " cool " surface , its wit , and its meticulous attention to detail . Selden Rodman , for example , writing in the New York Times of October 27 , 1946 , said : “ If the ...
... critics of Bishop's early work praised it for its immacu- lately " cool " surface , its wit , and its meticulous attention to detail . Selden Rodman , for example , writing in the New York Times of October 27 , 1946 , said : “ If the ...
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... critics often have sought to compare him with earlier poets who , like him , had developed their themes in descrip- tive poems of a philosophic cast . When his ma- ture poetry was first published in pamphlet form in 1821 , it was ...
... critics often have sought to compare him with earlier poets who , like him , had developed their themes in descrip- tive poems of a philosophic cast . When his ma- ture poetry was first published in pamphlet form in 1821 , it was ...
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