Shelf Life: Literary Essays and ReviewsIn this collection of essays and reviews, William H. Pritchard focuses on the work of English and American writers, most of them from the 20th century. Prichard's aim is to reinstate the aesthetic as a major motive for literary study. |
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Page 69
... conclude this volume , " Christmas Tree " and " Days of 1994. " To call these last poems rehearsals for death puts it too ... concludes with the notion of waking in a tomb " Below the world " and enumerates some of " the thousand things ...
... conclude this volume , " Christmas Tree " and " Days of 1994. " To call these last poems rehearsals for death puts it too ... concludes with the notion of waking in a tomb " Below the world " and enumerates some of " the thousand things ...
Page 156
... concluding by not exactly concluding : we're told that the bishop , his car having been side- swiped by a truck , " was in the hospital for a while , doing fairly well for a man of his age , he understood , until he took a turn for the ...
... concluding by not exactly concluding : we're told that the bishop , his car having been side- swiped by a truck , " was in the hospital for a while , doing fairly well for a man of his age , he understood , until he took a turn for the ...
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... concludes the biographical section of the life of Pope . Through three paragraphs a comparison between Dryden and Pope is pursued with all the elegance and ingenuity of a writer at the top of his bent ( " Dryden's page is a natural ...
... concludes the biographical section of the life of Pope . Through three paragraphs a comparison between Dryden and Pope is pursued with all the elegance and ingenuity of a writer at the top of his bent ( " Dryden's page is a natural ...
Contents
POETRY AND POETS | 1 |
A Witness Tree and Frosts Biography 20 | 20 |
Reading The Waste Land Today | 36 |
Copyright | |
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