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 86
... early essays on poets such as cummings , Stevens , D. H. Law- rence , Marianne Moore , Hart Crane , and the Eliot of " Ash Wednesday , " are relatively modest in their behavior and observably anchored to specific lines or words , thus ...
... early essays on poets such as cummings , Stevens , D. H. Law- rence , Marianne Moore , Hart Crane , and the Eliot of " Ash Wednesday , " are relatively modest in their behavior and observably anchored to specific lines or words , thus ...
Page 133
... early pulp stories seem to me of interest mainly to the Chandler scholar ; but essays like " The Simple Art of Murder , " " Writers in Hollywood , " and " Notes on the Mystery Story " -all contained in the Library , volume two - are ...
... early pulp stories seem to me of interest mainly to the Chandler scholar ; but essays like " The Simple Art of Murder , " " Writers in Hollywood , " and " Notes on the Mystery Story " -all contained in the Library , volume two - are ...
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... early ” and “ later ” work ; no doubt any admirer will have his particular favorite to add to the list . Burgess is a comic writer , a term broad and common enough to cover supposed refinements of it , such as satire , grotesque , or ...
... early ” and “ later ” work ; no doubt any admirer will have his particular favorite to add to the list . Burgess is a comic writer , a term broad and common enough to cover supposed refinements of it , such as satire , grotesque , or ...
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POETRY AND POETS | 1 |
A Witness Tree and Frosts Biography 20 | 20 |
Reading The Waste Land Today | 36 |
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