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 139
... eyes of wonder . " I'd no idea , " he gasped . “ Never thought . " He was like a youth having his first sexual experience . But all these pleasant events are shattered abruptly as Denham resumes his job in the East and leaves his father ...
... eyes of wonder . " I'd no idea , " he gasped . “ Never thought . " He was like a youth having his first sexual experience . But all these pleasant events are shattered abruptly as Denham resumes his job in the East and leaves his father ...
Page 164
... eyes were a caution , warning away the faint of loin , the troubled and the poor . " In part two , the race begins and we move back and forth between the tumultuous course of Browne's voyage and the equally vivid and self - destructive ...
... eyes were a caution , warning away the faint of loin , the troubled and the poor . " In part two , the race begins and we move back and forth between the tumultuous course of Browne's voyage and the equally vivid and self - destructive ...
Page 217
... eyes ; for example , he had thought Keats was merely a bad poet ( " I stood tip - toe upon a little hill so I could fart better " was his creative extension of a Keats opening line ) but that , as universal opinion had it , a wiser ...
... eyes ; for example , he had thought Keats was merely a bad poet ( " I stood tip - toe upon a little hill so I could fart better " was his creative extension of a Keats opening line ) but that , as universal opinion had it , a wiser ...
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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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