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... Rexroth would spend a significant portion of the next half - century studying Tu Fu - as well as other major Chinese and Japanese poets . More than any other poet writing in English , Rexroth assimilated not only technique , but ...
... Rexroth would spend a significant portion of the next half - century studying Tu Fu - as well as other major Chinese and Japanese poets . More than any other poet writing in English , Rexroth assimilated not only technique , but ...
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... Rexroth had become interested in Oriental poetry when he discovered Pound's Cathay while still in his teens . While in his twenties , he corresponded with Pound , who introduced Rexroth to James Laughlin , publisher of New Directions ...
... Rexroth had become interested in Oriental poetry when he discovered Pound's Cathay while still in his teens . While in his twenties , he corresponded with Pound , who introduced Rexroth to James Laughlin , publisher of New Directions ...
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... Rexroth , ” a poem addressed to the poet's mother who died in 1916 when he was eleven ; and “ Andrée Rexroth , ” an elegy for the woman to whom he was married for thirteen years and who died in 1940 following years of struggle with an ...
... Rexroth , ” a poem addressed to the poet's mother who died in 1916 when he was eleven ; and “ Andrée Rexroth , ” an elegy for the woman to whom he was married for thirteen years and who died in 1940 following years of struggle with an ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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