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Summer 1987 • Vol. IX No. 3 • Book Reviews |

What a Sermon Was and What a Lyric Wasn’t

By John V. Fleming

Preachers, Poets, and the Early English Lyric by Siegfried Wenzel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. 272 pages. $30.00.

 

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Poetry and Gender

By Ellen Bryant Voigt

The belief that true poetry is genderless–which is a disguised form of believing that true poetry is masculine–means that we have not learned to see women poets generically, to recognize […]

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The Shaping Imagination

By James Baird

Wallace Stevens: The Early Years 1879-1923 by Joan Richardson. Illustrated. New York: Beech Tree Books/William Morrow & Company, 1986. 591 pages. $21.95.  Already have an account? Log in Join KR […]

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