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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... published ? Unless they're subsidized , university- sponsored collections of letters surely have no appeal for publishers : fifteen years ago Houghton Mifflin published Randall Jarrell's letters , wonderfully engaging pages I found them ...
... published ? Unless they're subsidized , university- sponsored collections of letters surely have no appeal for publishers : fifteen years ago Houghton Mifflin published Randall Jarrell's letters , wonderfully engaging pages I found them ...
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... published his first book of poems fifty years ago this month when Reynal & Hitchcock brought out The Beautiful Changes . Its forty - three poems constituted a claim on poetry readers ' atten- tion that the career of books to follow ...
... published his first book of poems fifty years ago this month when Reynal & Hitchcock brought out The Beautiful Changes . Its forty - three poems constituted a claim on poetry readers ' atten- tion that the career of books to follow ...
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... published his first novel in 1956 , his most recent one in the present year , a fact which becomes of interest only when it is added that in the intervening period he published thirteen additional novels . ' No doubt the figure is ...
... published his first novel in 1956 , his most recent one in the present year , a fact which becomes of interest only when it is added that in the intervening period he published thirteen additional novels . ' No doubt the figure is ...
Contents
POETRY AND POETS | 1 |
A Witness Tree and Frosts Biography 20 | 20 |
Reading The Waste Land Today | 36 |
Copyright | |
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