… crises, other nations, which were involved by obligatory commitments, let the aggressive Japanese and Italians break … the “critical moment should arrive”; and that Germany also had assured support. One learns that as soon as it … impoverished peasants, to spread education even among soldiers in the trenches, and to preserve the treasures of …
Memoir
… the baby, on the way to my office. I’d just described my upcoming spring schedule as my father drove us over the San … Phillis Wheatley married and bore three babies, two of whom died in infancy, her days as a poet of record were done. … during a trip into San Francisco. This was Tuesday, October 26, 2010. Callie was nearly five months old. Her whole body …
… and the bedroom, windowless, was too close and too completely dark. Delahaye himself had done such tasks, which … no one could prevail indefinitely against European soldiers. A marabou youth across the table hotly rejoined that … were collaborating with the British at Port au Prince and points further south. “Yes,” the bearded man agreed, “And …
… oaks were noble. The house was gray, unpretentious, comfortable looking, and it didn’t have decks; it had … Dutch blue—and to listen to the birdcalls that were like pinpoints in the envelope of silence. At noon, she made herself … swear. You heard it, too, didn’t you?” The desperation had died, and his voice had a confused and imploring tone. She …
… Lytle witnessed at 27 Bank Street in New York City in 1926 was habitual; and just as certainly he was “the soonest … president, Gordon Keith Chalmers. All these men suddenly died in 1956, but Ransom continued his work at the Kenyon … he was cold and in a useful way without illusions.” At such points in John Crowe Ransom’s life one is struck by the …
Criticism
… them). The inky page, the homely sheet of paper itself, becomes the property of the receiver (in this way letters … we trust them? Rare is the writer who doesn’t play to his audience, seduce by his gossip or gossip of seductions, use … swagger of language. Robert Lowell letters American poetry 269-284 By William Logan …