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… its difficult transition period, with the war and the coming of the railroad, the depreciation of gold—the passing … in Alaska, back to Washington where she had lived at intervals before. A child of the east, she has “broken horses and … Cambs., England. He is a London University man and has studied at Oxford. His work, poetry and short stories, has only …

… from this Army base “every / Sun-up, neighbor,” that so discomfited the Dickeys, Jim and Maxine and their two boys, … plug of transplanted hair on his head. . . . My father had died in the summer of 1995; now, a year later, I was in … has happened.”“) No Tate and no Jarrell. But in his briefcase there are copies lent to him of Warren’s Selected …

… Master of Melody Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry . By Anthony … art and signifies “a sculptural technique of organizing or composing into a unified whole a group of unrelated and … finger), and more figuratively it means something that points out or indicates. A good index can be to a work of …

… century from 1890 has also been understood as “America’s Coming-of-Age” (associated with another World War). This … are not obtrusive, since they are useful and make general points. He was a master of the illustrative example, … The worthiest in the land, irreproachable citizens, soldiers and priests, knew by intuition that Dreyfus was …

… murderous patience, and the pomp Of pain swells like the Indies, or a plum. And there you will stand, as on the Roman … regards you with authority Till you feel like one who has come too late, or improperly clothed, to a party. The doctor … the dancers, and tells you how just last fall Her husband died in Ohio, and damp mists her glasses; She blinks and …