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Late Nineteenth Century Tragic Hero
5,266 words1. A good book is the offspring of many fathers and the father of many offspring. 2. Writers Goal By art to attain simplicity. 3. A good style is simple and powerful, like a wave breaking on a beach. 4. Simplicity La Bruy? re, knowing that many writers make the mistake of expressing simple things in a complex way, gave this advice to writers: if you want to say that it is raining, say: It is raining. Simplicity is the mark of good prose, and its also a virtue in other branches of culture, such a...
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Prose Poem Poem Quot
1,459 wordsHass On Prose Poems, Political Poetry, And Hass On Prose Poems, Political Poetry, And " Russia En 1931 " Excerpts from an interview with Hass by the Iowa Review in 1991 Question: Why a prose poem, and what is a prose poem? Hass: I havent arrived for myself at any very satisfactory formulation of what a prose poem is. Certainly it has something to do with condensation... I dont know how to define it in terms of genre, and when I was working, I guess I just stopped trying to think about ...
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Women Writers Free Verse
1,570 wordsPaula Bennett As her persistent use of the first person singular suggests, like her fellow women writers, Dickinson also seems to have viewed her poetry at least her psychological poetry as her hearts record, the inner truth of a domestic life. This is the genre within which she is writing and, as Walker has so ably demonstrated, she employs many of the same themes and images her fellow women poets use. But Dickinson took up these themes with a difference. As Adrienne Rich asserts, for Dickinson...
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Detroit Gale Research Quot And Quot
1,415 words[The following excerpts have been chosen for their relevance to Hass poems " Russia en 1931 " (in section 1 of Human Wishes) and " A Story About the Body" (in section 2 of Human Wishes). These critics respond positively to Hass experimentation with form in Human Wishes, with one notable exception. ] Darcy Aldan (1990) The delicacy and sensibility of Robert Hass, as exemplified in... Human Wishes, is a distinct joy to experience in this time when so many published works deal w...
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York Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company
3,080 wordsPreface from Lowells Men, Women, and Ghosts (New York: Macmillan Company, 1917) vii-xii. This is a book of stories. For that reason I have excluded all purely lyrical poems. But the word " stories" has been stretched to its fullest application. It includes both narrative poems, properly so called tales divided into scenes; and a few pieces of less obvious story telling import in which one might say that the dramatis personae are air, clouds, trees, houses, streets, and such like things...
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