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From: Judaism[(essay date Fall 1962) In the following essay, Grossman discusses Ginsberg's contribution to Jewish poetry, focusing particularly on Kaddish.] The Jew, like the Irishman, presents himself as a type of the sufferer in...
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From: Critical QuarterlyIn night when colours all to black are cast, Distinction lost, or gone down with the light; The eye a watch to inward senses plac'd, Not seeing, yet still having power of sight, Gives vain alarums to the inward sense,...
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From: The Hudson Review[(review date Summer 1995) Pritchard is an American educator and critic. In the following review, he remarks on theme and style in Under My Skin and summarizes Lessing's development over her literary career .] A little...
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From: Black American Poets Between Worlds, 1940-1960[(essay date 1986) In the following essay, Russell analyzes the progression of Tolson's thought and style throughout his career.] The consideration of Melvin Tolson's evolving style concerns the maturation of his...
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From: Language and StyleAt least in one respect Czeslaw Milosz's work resembles that of Blake, Mickiewicz, Dostoevsky, Gombrowicz, and other favorite subjects of his essays: it is a work that thrives on contradictions. Some of the more...
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From: The Uses of Fiction: Essays on the Modern Novel in Honour of Arnold Kettle[(essay date 1982) Below, Muir assesses the achievement of Hill's fiction up to her hiatus from writing, discussing her narrative method, characterization, and themes.] When Susan Hill, to the dismay of her admirers,...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 140. )REPRESENTATIVE WORKS:John James AudubonOrnithological Biography (nonfiction) 1831-40Matthew Arnold"Dover Beach" (poetry) 1867William BartramTravels (journal) 1791William Cullen Bryant"Thanatopsis" (poem) 1817"A Forest...
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From: The Atlantic MonthlyThe Enchanter isn't exactly a “lost” Nabokov story. Scholars have been aware of it for years, under the title “The Magician”; Andrew Field even translated a couple of passages in Nabokov: His Life in Art. It is known as...
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From: The Southern ReviewAbove all I was charmed in Auden by what to me, when I first read him, seemed the ultimate sophistication, which was not disillusion but instead minimal expectations. More exactly, it was the combination of unillusioned...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Although a prolific author with recognizable stances, Gore Vidal is among the most versatile of contemporary American writers. In scholarly novels about ancient-world potentates, in doomsday fictions, in a playfully...
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From:Poetry Criticism (Vol. 63. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:PoetryPoetical Sketches (poetry and drama) 1783The Book of Thel 1789Songs of Innocence 1789Tiriel 1789?The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (poetry, prose, and proverbs) 1790-1793?The French Revolution...
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From: The New English Literatures: Cultural Nationalism in a Changing WorldWith the publication of Things Fall Apart (1958) Nigeria had the classic book that would serve as a point of reference and comparison for future writing. The novel was not only more competent than anything that had...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 111. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: William WordsworthDescriptive Sketches (poetry) 1793An Evening Walk: An Epistle in Verse (poetry) 1793*Lyrical Ballads [with Samuel Taylor Coleridge] (poetry) 1798Poems (poetry) 1807The...
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From: The New York Review of Books[(review date 10 November 1983) In the following excerpt, Russian-born American poet, essayist, translator, and Nobel Prize-winner [For the thirty years that Walcott has been writing, critics have] kept calling him “a...
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From: The New York Times Book Review[(essay date 27 October 1996) Below, Baranczak discusses Szymborska's poetics, citing the poet's wisdom for realizing "that what attracts people to poetry today is . . . its art of asking questions."] "The Greta Garbo...
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From:Feminist WritersOriana Fallaci, world famous as a war correspondent, novelist, and interviewer, is a difficult writer to category. She is perhaps most widely known for conducting blunt, high-profile interviews with such prominent public...
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From:Reference Guide to Short Fiction"Es que somos muy pobres" ("We're Very Poor") was first published in 1953 in Juan Rulfo's first book, the collection of short stories called El llano en llamas (The Burning Plain). This brief story, narrated in the first...
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From: The Sewanee Review[(essay date Spring 1983) In the following essay, Perrin provides a detailed summary of Mitchell's career, attempting to show the development of his craft and the means by which he transformed reporting into an art.]...
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 159. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Studies in the History of the Renaissance (essays) 1873; republished as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry, 1877Marius the Epicurean: His Sensations and Ideas (novel) 1885Imaginary...
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From: The New Republic[(review date 11 July 1994) In the following review, The Crossing and All the Pretty Horses, and comments on the differences between these two works and previous novels.] The myth of Cormac McCarthy is the myth of hard...