An Approach to LiteratureAn Approach to Literature provides a very liberal selection of fiction, poetry and drama, and it is scarecely to be expected that the book will be regularly used from cover to cover. What we have tried to do, now more positively than ever, is to give teachers room to maneuver, a range of choices out of which they can tailor a course to their special needs and to the tastes and capacities of their students. |
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... light flowed down over the ridge . The starved brush and rocks stood out in the half light , strange and lonely in high perspective . Then there came warmth into the light . Pepé drew up and looked back , but he could see nothing in the ...
... light flowed down over the ridge . The starved brush and rocks stood out in the half light , strange and lonely in high perspective . Then there came warmth into the light . Pepé drew up and looked back , but he could see nothing in the ...
Page 411
... light . The hero deserves his fame . Melville is paying an honest com- pliment to the hero . There is no hint of ... light . In the first , the finely tempered blade gives off a beam . In the second , the October light makes a barren ...
... light . The hero deserves his fame . Melville is paying an honest com- pliment to the hero . There is no hint of ... light . In the first , the finely tempered blade gives off a beam . In the second , the October light makes a barren ...
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... light , though light by diminution . Another associational group of words - groan , gloom , doom , woe , and forlorn - which have a common associa- tion of sadness , is based on one of the series of " back " vowels ( oo as in moot , o ...
... light , though light by diminution . Another associational group of words - groan , gloom , doom , woe , and forlorn - which have a common associa- tion of sadness , is based on one of the series of " back " vowels ( oo as in moot , o ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
William Carlos Williams | 11 |
Fictional Point | 17 |
Copyright | |
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