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… with infinitude. . . With hope it is, hope that can never die, Effort, and expectation, and desire, And something … a depth Proceed thy honours. ( The Prelude , XII, 269—273) Wordsworth’s remarkable re-creating of such an … more remarkable because with this metaphor of time he first points the way to the place where all imaginative vision …
… and dropped out of gymnasium at age 16.After an uninspiring commercial apprenticeship he finished school and then began studies in Romance and German philology. Next, he exchanged … account of Victor and Eva Klemperer’s life under Nazism but also provide an unvarnished picture of thoughts and …
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… but, and trod the lanes of Amherst helplessly trying to compose in it, who did his own impressions of it at his own … for a tiny South Atlantic islet dotted with sheep; Admirals Drake and Nelson were invoked in the defence of Empire, … War’s annals will cloud into night Ere their story die. The word cloud there has a convulsive effect on my gut …
… Speculative, daring, and sometimes melodious, it has become the register of some of the most independent minds. … notion of the mainstream, the currents of which are “commonness” (p. xix), displacement of “all that had been … mildly twitted for his obligations to the English metaphysicals, yet despite that, he has written in an American …
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… collections of short stories as well as poetry before he died at the age of 50. In 2008, he was posthumously awarded … the National Book Critics Circle Award for his novel 2666. Roberto Bolaño …
… That a poor girl who had kept geese in the fields should come to marry the greatest king in the world sounds like a … prison, martyred her virtuous but narrow-minded mother, and died Governor of Martinique in 1647. After her return to … down to her. Rival ladies flattered her. Ministers and generals deferred to her opinion. It seemed at times as if the …