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 117
... matter ran in Heming- way's psyche . Lynn gives us a way to view this matter and to understand why Hemingway's hatred for Grace- " that bitch , " as he loved to refer to her - needed to be worked at full - time , took up enormous ...
... matter ran in Heming- way's psyche . Lynn gives us a way to view this matter and to understand why Hemingway's hatred for Grace- " that bitch , " as he loved to refer to her - needed to be worked at full - time , took up enormous ...
Page 129
... matter was central to his fictional operation . Charles Morton , an editor at the Atlantic , to whom some of Chandler's liveliest let- ters were posted , was once invited by him to commission a piece titled “ The Insignificance of ...
... matter was central to his fictional operation . Charles Morton , an editor at the Atlantic , to whom some of Chandler's liveliest let- ters were posted , was once invited by him to commission a piece titled “ The Insignificance of ...
Page 191
... matter , especially when the subject is lyric poetry , and he admits that the " spectacle " of a lecturer with one of Tennyson's poems in hand ( “ Tears , Idle Tears , " or " Mariana ” ) attempting to show " what is graceful , what is ...
... matter , especially when the subject is lyric poetry , and he admits that the " spectacle " of a lecturer with one of Tennyson's poems in hand ( “ Tears , Idle Tears , " or " Mariana ” ) attempting to show " what is graceful , what is ...
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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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