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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... poem , and considering possible objections to this way of reading , I want to make some more general speculations about Eliot's creative art in the poem . If cru- cial moments can be accounted for in terms he himself has given us ...
... poem , and considering possible objections to this way of reading , I want to make some more general speculations about Eliot's creative art in the poem . If cru- cial moments can be accounted for in terms he himself has given us ...
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... poem . After we have read these words , nothing in " The Steeple - Jack " has been explained , cleared up , or , most crudely , “ interpreted " for us . We have probably read the poem a few times at most ; our familiarity with it — in ...
... poem . After we have read these words , nothing in " The Steeple - Jack " has been explained , cleared up , or , most crudely , “ interpreted " for us . We have probably read the poem a few times at most ; our familiarity with it — in ...
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... poem and discover some effect that the common reader has missed , then go on to claim that “ our ” ex- perience of the poem is an experience that perhaps only he has had , or would like to think he has had . Blackmur's invocation of the ...
... poem and discover some effect that the common reader has missed , then go on to claim that “ our ” ex- perience of the poem is an experience that perhaps only he has had , or would like to think he has had . Blackmur's invocation of the ...
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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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