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Spring 1984 • Vol. VI No. 2 • Book Reviews |

Language of Grace

By Royal Rhodes

The Language of Grace: Flannery O’Conner, Walker Percy, & Iris Murdoch by Peter S. Hawkins. Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley Publications, 1983. xiv + 137 pages. $7.00.

 

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The Augustan Idea

By Frank Kermode

The Augustan Idea in English Literature by Howard Erskine-Hill. London: Edward Arnold, 1983. xvi + 379 pages. $64.50. Most people have better things to do than argue about such terms […]

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At the Town Dump

By Jane Kenyon

Sometimes I nod to my neighbor, as he flings lath and plaster or cleared brush on the swelling pile. Talk is impossible; the dozer shudders toward us, flattening everything in […]

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