New Directions in Prose and PoetryJames Laughlin Since 1936, the New Directions in Prose and Poetry anthologies have served as vehicles for the presentation of new and variant trends in world literature. |
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... American poets . His literary friendships and enmities were varied and intense : Pound , Marianne Moore , Wallace Stevens , Eliot ( whom he admired and disapproved of ) , E. E. Cummings , and other younger figures like James Laughlin ...
... American poets . His literary friendships and enmities were varied and intense : Pound , Marianne Moore , Wallace Stevens , Eliot ( whom he admired and disapproved of ) , E. E. Cummings , and other younger figures like James Laughlin ...
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... American language is a buried grain that will bear fruit only if it is given water and sun by the poetic imagination . A partial reconciliation , always partial and provisional , between the sense and the thing . The sense - criticism ...
... American language is a buried grain that will bear fruit only if it is given water and sun by the poetic imagination . A partial reconciliation , always partial and provisional , between the sense and the thing . The sense - criticism ...
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... American culture . The Christianity of The Waste Land is a burnt , blackened truth , one which will not , in my opinion , flourish again , but it was a central truth and one which , like the light of a dead star , still touches us . I ...
... American culture . The Christianity of The Waste Land is a burnt , blackened truth , one which will not , in my opinion , flourish again , but it was a central truth and one which , like the light of a dead star , still touches us . I ...
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