'Major american writers' presentation slideshows

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Major American Writers: Wallace Stevens

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American Literature in 60 Minutes

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Major American Writers: Wallace Stevens

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What is Poetry?

What is Poetry?. If a poet looks through a microscope or a telescope, he always sees the same thing. The poet puts language in danger. --Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space . Major American Writers: Wallace Stevens. Poetry. Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

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Major American Writers I

Major American Writers I. Introduction Professor Engber. How to begin?. Surprise your students. Take them seriously. Listen. Be Kind. How do you see America?. Thomas Hariot "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia." Frankfort: Theodore De Bry (1590 ).

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Herman Melville by W. H. Auden Towards the end he sailed into an extraordinary mildness, And anchored in his home and reached his wife And rode within the harbour of her hand, And went across each morning to an office As though his occupation were another island.

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