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John Crowe Ransom

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When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

John Crowe Ransom

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It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

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I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to – what the story’s up to – and I’m giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.

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May 3, 2024

I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to – what the story’s up to – and I’m giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.

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May 3, 2024

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

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