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    de Kenneth Gross ...
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  • The Substance of Shadow

    A Darkening Trope in Poetic History

    John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative risk. This book, based on the unpublished Clark Lectures Hollander delivered in 1999 at Cambridge University, witnesses his power to shift the horizons of our thinking, as he traces the history of shadow in British and American poetry from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century.Shadow ... Leer más

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  • How To Read A Poem

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