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… the purpose of the Declaration of Independence or could come within half a century of the date of its drafting. … to become more autonomous. This particular discipline can also enable us to become “more cognizant of human … find abstractions superfluous and cites particular studies in Renaissance history, in early modern Italian …
… well indeed. Theodore Dreiser: The American Diaries, 1902—1926 , edited by Thomas P. Riggio. Pennsylvania $28.50 This … Constable’s apparent aliterarity and Turner’s seemingly selfconscious textuality, Paulson’s study skips over the … is Paradise Lost.” One can take exception to some of his points, particularly about his reluctant rejection of …
Essays
… There were six of them, the best and bravest of the hero’s companions. Turning back from his post in the bows, Odysseus … is an accurate account of particular events, But it might also strike the reader as being ‘true’ with regard to … all Greek, all French, and most Elizabethan tragedies are found wanting. Only the best of Shakespeare can …
… a defeated country; we are not short of land and raw materials; we are not going to put on shirts or uniforms, abandon … years ago they as solemnly prophesied the arrival of communism when Congress enacted an infinitely light … his account at the time appeared to have been the local bodies, town governments, and State assemblies, offering so …
Poetry
[In the room, the roots of things have decayed] In the room, the roots of things have decayed, and like a bud, healthy, tender— the big table sprouts a little table, the big chair sprouts a little chair. Two bookcases— one dying, one new— the pin-sized …
Fiction
… being good at exactly the same moment. Around this time the commissions stopped coming and I decided to take a job I was … matter, I said, because it didn’t. My grandfather, who had died when I was a baby, had set up a trust fund so large and … on his own since he was sixteen and that person is also selling drugs you’ve never even heard of, and if he’s …