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... become a poet , named him after Ralph Waldo Emerson ( an appellation , incidentally , that Ellison claims he has never learned to live with ) . And though the young Ellison was a voracious reader of the sort of books that nourish the ...
... become a poet , named him after Ralph Waldo Emerson ( an appellation , incidentally , that Ellison claims he has never learned to live with ) . And though the young Ellison was a voracious reader of the sort of books that nourish the ...
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... becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater . Here individuals of all nations are ... become distinct by the power of the different climates they inhabit . The American ought therefore to love this ...
... becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater . Here individuals of all nations are ... become distinct by the power of the different climates they inhabit . The American ought therefore to love this ...
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... become a drunkard , Mother . AMANDA . That's what frightened me so , that you'd be drinking ! Eat a bowl of Purina ... becomes hard and impatient again . Amanda slips back into her querulous attitude toward him . ) AMANDA . Most young ...
... become a drunkard , Mother . AMANDA . That's what frightened me so , that you'd be drinking ! Eat a bowl of Purina ... becomes hard and impatient again . Amanda slips back into her querulous attitude toward him . ) AMANDA . Most young ...
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BERNARD MALAMUD | 20 |
THE NOBEL PRIZE 27 | 64 |
RALPH ELLISON | 75 |
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Agapito AMANDA American asked Aylmer Batman Bernice boat called captain Copyright CREATIVE RESPONSE dance dark day-bed dead death Deerslayer door DOUGLASS Dreiser E. B. White E. E. Cummings EXPLORATION eyes face father feel girl Glass Menagerie hair hand Harpers Ferry HARRY head heard horse JOHN BROWN Kiowas knew laughed LAURA light literary lived looked Marjorie Mary MARY WARREN mean mind MISS MCCUTCHEON mother Negro ness never night Pepé play poem poet poetry Prudencio de Pereda Pulitzer Prize Reprinted by permission Robert Hayden seemed sitting slave sound stand stood story T. S. Eliot talk tell things thou thought tion took trees turned voice W. H. Auden walked words WOZZECK writing young