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 72
... look ! my last , or next - to - last , of three loved houses went . The art of losing isn't hard to master . I lost two cities , lovely ones . And , vaster , some realms I owned , two rivers , a continent . I miss them , but it wasn't a ...
... look ! my last , or next - to - last , of three loved houses went . The art of losing isn't hard to master . I lost two cities , lovely ones . And , vaster , some realms I owned , two rivers , a continent . I miss them , but it wasn't a ...
Page 78
... looks , two looks : art " copying from life " and life itself , life and the memory of it so compressed they've turned into each other . Which is which ? Life and the memory of it cramped , dim , on a piece of Bristol board , dim , but ...
... looks , two looks : art " copying from life " and life itself , life and the memory of it so compressed they've turned into each other . Which is which ? Life and the memory of it cramped , dim , on a piece of Bristol board , dim , but ...
Page 242
... Look at the poisonous soil of the equator , at those putrid slimy tracks , teeming with horrid monsters , the enemies of the human race ; look next at the sandy continent , scorched perhaps by the fatal approach of some ancient comet ...
... Look at the poisonous soil of the equator , at those putrid slimy tracks , teeming with horrid monsters , the enemies of the human race ; look next at the sandy continent , scorched perhaps by the fatal approach of some ancient comet ...
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