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  • The Collected Poems and Selected Prose

    by Stanley Burnshaw, Thomas F. Staley ...
    Series series Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Imprint Series
    Stanley Burnshaw began to publish poems in the 1920s and founded his own verse journal in 1925. After serving as coeditor and drama critic of the New Masses weekly (1934-1936), he entered book publishing, directing the Dryden Press until 1958, when he joined Henry Holt. The first of his nineteen earlier works, André Spire and His Poetry, appeared in 1934 and the last in 1990, A Stanley Burnshaw ... Read more

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    Meditation of a Modern Believer

    by Christian Wiman ...
    Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith—responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious ... Read more

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  • Famous Quotes from 100 Great People (Mobi Reference)

    by MobileReference ...
    Table of Contents: A-Z INDEX Ancient Greeks and Romans: Aesop Aristotle Marcus Aurelius Cicero Horace Plato Seneca Socrates Sophocles Virgil Writers: Jane Austen Ambrose Bierce William Blake Lord Byron Albert Camus Anton Chekhov Daniel Defoe Charles Dickens Fyodor Dostoevsky William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald Gustave Flaubert Anne Frank Robert Frost Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ernest Hemingway ... Read more

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  • John Gardner on Writing

    On Becoming a Novelist, On Writers & Writing, and On Moral Fiction

    by John Gardner ...
    Three books in one volume: Advice and reflections on modern fiction from "one of the greatest creative writing teachers we've ever had" (Frederick Busch).In On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner advises the aspiring fiction author on such topics as the value of creative writing workshops, the developmental stages of literary growth, and the inevitable experience of writer's block. Drawn from his ... Read more

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  • Virginia Woolf

    The Will to Create as a Woman

    by Ruth Gruber ...
    This groundbreaking study of the work and legacy of Virginia Woolf is also an account of the intertwined lives of two extraordinary women.In 1932, Ruth Gruber earned her PhD—the youngest person ever to do so—with a stunning doctoral dissertation on Virginia Woolf. Published in 1935, the paper was the first-ever feminist critique of Woolf's work and inspired a series of correspondences between the ... Read more

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  • Life Sentences

    Literary Judgments and Accounts

    by William H. Gass ...
    A dazzling new collection of essays—on reading, writing, form, and thought—from one of America’s master writers.It begins with the personal, both past and present. It emphasizes Gass’s lifelong attachment to books and moves on to the more analytical, as he ponders the work of some of his favorite writers (among them Kafka, Nietzsche, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Proust). He writes about a few ... Read more

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  • A Wild Peculiar Joy

    The Selected Poems

    by Irving Layton ...
    A Wild Peculiar Joy is Irving Layton’s poetic testament. Hailed as the great lyric poet, Irving Layton has come to be known as one of Canada’s most powerful, groundbreaking voices, an important and influential writer whose distinguished career spanned almost forty-five years. By turns passionate and grave, joyous and apocalyptic, his beautifully crafted poems are illuminated by a strong social and ... Read more

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  • Spring and All

    by William Carlos Williams ...
    A beautiful facsimile of the 1923 original edition which is considered "one of the greatest poems of the twentieth century". (The New York Times)Spring and All is a manifesto of the imagination — a hybrid of alternating sections of prose and free verse that coalesce in dramatic, energetic, and beautifully cryptic statements of how language re-creates the world. Spring and All contains some of ... Read more

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  • Great American Prose Poems

    From Poe to the Present

    Edited by David Lehman ...
    A prose poem is a poem written in prose rather than verse. But what does that really mean? Is it an indefinable hybrid? An anomaly in the history of poetry? Are the very words "prose poem" an oxymoron? This groundbreaking anthology edited by celebrated poet David Lehman, editor of The Best American Poetry series, traces the form in all its dazzling variety from Poe and Emerson to Auden and Ashbery ... Read more

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  • Due Considerations

    Essays and Criticism

    by John Updike ...
    A page-turning collection of essays and literary criticism on topics ranging from books, writers, poker, cars, faith, and the American libido—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series."[Updike is] one of the best essayists and critics this country has produced in the last century."—The Los Angeles TimesHere Updike considers ... Read more

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  • The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

    by Elizabeth Hardwick, Darryl Pinckney ...
    The first-ever collection of 50+ writings from the 20th-century critic who “redefined the possibilities of the literary essay”—including works not seen in print for decades (The New Yorker)Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question.In the essays ... Read more

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  • There Is Simply Too Much to Think About

    Collected Nonfiction

    by Saul Bellow ...
    “Bellow’s nonfiction has the same strengths as his stories and novels: a dynamic responsiveness to character, place and time (or era) . . . And you wonder—what other highbrow writer, or indeed lowbrow writer has such a reflexive grasp of the street, the machine, the law courts, the rackets?” —Martin Amis, The New York Times Book ReviewThe year 2015 marks several literary milestones: the centennial ... Read more

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