One Writer's
Beginnings
Eudora Welty
"The beautiful, affecting
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exists now only in her memory
and in her remarkable novels and
short stories give this book a
warmth, a glow, a resplendence
that are rarely encountered in
contemporary literature."
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OfMind and
Other Matters
Nelson Goodman
OfMind and OtherMatters
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Motives for Fiction
RobertA lter
Alter examines the imitation of
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Fanny
Wright
Rebel in America
CeliaMorris Eckhardt
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Introspection and
Contemporary Poetry
Alan Williamson
Alan Williamson shows us that
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past twenty-five years is about
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Robert Lowell, John Ashbery,
James Wright, W. S.Merwin,
Frank Bidart, and Sylvia Plath.
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The Witness
ofPoetry
CzeslawMilosz
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The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
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