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Page ix
... snow on the roofs and snow on the cart . But those few lines sparkled and crackled with life - which is what the few lines a good artist makes ought to do . The little scene had amazing depth . All the gray infinity of the ruin of a ...
... snow on the roofs and snow on the cart . But those few lines sparkled and crackled with life - which is what the few lines a good artist makes ought to do . The little scene had amazing depth . All the gray infinity of the ruin of a ...
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... snow around the buildings Frost admired so . Maybe there is a bit of symbolism here . For the world has not made a myriad of tracks to J. J. Lankes's door , any more than they made them to William Blake's . That may be another ...
... snow around the buildings Frost admired so . Maybe there is a bit of symbolism here . For the world has not made a myriad of tracks to J. J. Lankes's door , any more than they made them to William Blake's . That may be another ...
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... snow . English poets have brought Christmas north . Lankes has brought Gray's Elegy west and south . It was a book of life in its time and place . He makes it a new book of life here and now , for us Americans . He is doing only what we ...
... snow . English poets have brought Christmas north . Lankes has brought Gray's Elegy west and south . It was a book of life in its time and place . He makes it a new book of life here and now , for us Americans . He is doing only what we ...
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