The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
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The Fall of Icarus (Penguin Little Black Classics, #73)
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"we know that to restore to writing its future, we must reverse its myth: the birth of the reader must be ransomed by the death of the Author."
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The Republic
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'What is poetry, how many kinds of it are there, and what are their specific effects?'
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In this poignant and humorous work, Virginia Woolf observes that though illness is part of every human being's experience, it has never been the subject of literature—like the more acceptable subjects…
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Tre dei racconti qui riuniti hanno come protagoniste quelle creaturine infide, pericolose, enigmatiche che Shirley Jackson conosceva molto bene per aver cresciuto quattro «demoni», come chiamava – sch…
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
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Important poems by the late New York poet published in The New American Poetry, Evergreen Review, Floating Bear and stranger places.
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Often O'Hara, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manh…