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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... thought : Philip Larkin's " Continuing to Live " contains the following pronouncement : And once you have walked the length of your own mind , what You command is clear as a lading list . Anything else must not , for you , be thought To ...
... thought : Philip Larkin's " Continuing to Live " contains the following pronouncement : And once you have walked the length of your own mind , what You command is clear as a lading list . Anything else must not , for you , be thought To ...
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... 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 , nicer , much more percipient ...
... 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 , nicer , much more percipient ...
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... thought the same OH YES IT FUCKING WELL WOU The remarks about contemporaries and recent predecessors in the liter- ary line would make a splendid anthology of what Amis called " horsepiss- ing . " Here , without comment , are a few of ...
... thought the same OH YES IT FUCKING WELL WOU The remarks about contemporaries and recent predecessors in the liter- ary line would make a splendid anthology of what Amis called " horsepiss- ing . " Here , without comment , are a few of ...
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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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