An Approach to Literature: A Collection of Prose and Verse with Analyses and DiscussionsCleanth Brooks, John Thibaut Purser, Robert Penn Warren F. S. Crofts & Company, 1939 - 634 pages |
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Page 174
... whole city , the savings of 800,000 per- sons , the security and commercial existence of nearly the whole population would be imperilled . In other cities one bank might fail and the others , somewhat strained , might continue . But in ...
... whole city , the savings of 800,000 per- sons , the security and commercial existence of nearly the whole population would be imperilled . In other cities one bank might fail and the others , somewhat strained , might continue . But in ...
Page 448
... whole story yet . In interpret- ing , in trying to get the meaning of an experience , the poet , being a human being writing for human beings , is certain to interpret in human terms . The eagle , even in this objective poem , becomes ...
... whole story yet . In interpret- ing , in trying to get the meaning of an experience , the poet , being a human being writing for human beings , is certain to interpret in human terms . The eagle , even in this objective poem , becomes ...
Page 552
... whole story . HELENA . And what about the young man ? DOMIN . Well , any one who has looked into human anatomy will have seen at once that man is too com- plicated , and that a good engineer could make him more simply . So young Rossum ...
... whole story . HELENA . And what about the young man ? DOMIN . Well , any one who has looked into human anatomy will have seen at once that man is too com- plicated , and that a good engineer could make him more simply . So young Rossum ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY | 17 |
Bret Harte | 35 |
Guy de Maupassant | 41 |
Copyright | |
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