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 84
... expression " by means of " two images of smell or taste , immedi- ate and pervasive , haunting and formless , images which suggest the eerie menace of the sea felt inland ? " Or go on to unfold , using the full resources of words , some ...
... expression " by means of " two images of smell or taste , immedi- ate and pervasive , haunting and formless , images which suggest the eerie menace of the sea felt inland ? " Or go on to unfold , using the full resources of words , some ...
Page 93
... expression . In this respect one takes seriously his insis- tence in the Hart Crane essay that poetry is not architecture but a linear art — an act of succession resembling song . And one can also imagine his skepticism about recent ...
... expression . In this respect one takes seriously his insis- tence in the Hart Crane essay that poetry is not architecture but a linear art — an act of succession resembling song . And one can also imagine his skepticism about recent ...
Page 291
... expression on the printed page , something was assuredly lost : the immedi- acy , the actuality , the intimacy of ... expressed it , De Man's polemic in defense of theory leaves out some- thing important . For not only ( as he admits ) ...
... expression on the printed page , something was assuredly lost : the immedi- acy , the actuality , the intimacy of ... expressed it , De Man's polemic in defense of theory leaves out some- thing important . For not only ( as he admits ) ...
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POETRY AND POETS | 1 |
A Witness Tree and Frosts Biography 20 | 20 |
Reading The Waste Land Today | 36 |
Copyright | |
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