Literature of Tennessee

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Ray Willbanks
Mercer University Press, 1984 - 205 من الصفحات

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The Literature of Tennessee before 1920
1
The Southern Renascence and the Writers of Tennessee Lloyd Davis
21
John Crowe Ransom William Osborne
37
Donald Davidson and Allen Tate Thomas Daniel Young
63
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren Mark Royden Winchell
89
Andrew Lytle Charles C Clark
115
James Agee Victor A Kramer
133
Peter Taylor Clayton Robinson
149
Shelby Foote Helen White
163
Contemporary Writers Dennis Loyd
183
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الصفحة 51 - Practice your beauty, blue girls, before it fail; And I will cry with my loud lips and publish Beauty which all our power shall never establish, It is so frail. For I could tell you a story which is true: I know a lady with a terrible tongue, Blear eyes fallen from blue, All her perfections tarnished — and yet it is not long Since she was lovelier than any of you.
الصفحة 99 - On the other hand a symbol . . . is characterized by a translucence of the special in the individual, or of the general in the special or of the universal in the general; above all by the translucence of the eternal through and in the temporal.
الصفحة 40 - THE FUGITIVE flees from nothing faster than from the high-caste Brahmins of the Old South. Without raising the question of whether the blood in the veins of its editors runs red, they at any rate are not advertising it as blue; indeed, as to pedigree, they cheerfully invite the most unfavorable inference from the circumstances of their anonymity.
الصفحة 77 - What did you say mornings? Evenings, what? The bent eaves On the cracked house, That ghost of a hound .... The man red-faced and tall Will cast no shadow From the province of the drowned. An old soldier on the night before the veterans...
الصفحة 81 - Then, mother of silences, Speak, that we may hear; Listen, while we confess That we conceal our fear; Regard us, while the eye Discerns by sight or guess Whether, as sheep foregather Upon their crooked knees, We have begun to die; Whether your kindness, mother, Is mother of silences.
الصفحة 52 - With whatever religious institution a modern man may be connected,, let him try to turn it back towards orthodoxy. "Let him insist on a virile and concrete God, and accept no Principle as a substitute. "Let him restore to God the thunder.
الصفحة 104 - the image contrived to embody the most fruitful contemporary ideas was that of the authentic American as a figure of heroic innocence and vast potentialities, poised at the start of a new history.

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