Sentence examples for anthology introduction from inspiring English sources

He initially gained literary notice when he contributed three short stories to the anthology Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers (1981).

The irony here is that Chowder, with his tipsy ramblings, infects us with so much more passion for poetry than any dry old anthology introduction ever could.

Baker's ardent novel about poetry -- with its hero trying, and mostly failing, to write an anthology introduction -- actually does justice to poetry.

*A book published this year, "What Are You Looking At?" describes itself as "the first fat fiction anthology," and its introduction says, " 'Fat' has earned its way into the realm of human conditions that concern literary artists".

Three new books — Patrick Wright's "Passport to Peking" (Oxford; $34.95), Frank Dikötter's "Mao's Great Famine" (Walker & Co.; $30), and Timothy Cheek's anthology "A Critical Introduction to Mao" (Cambridge; $27.99) — attest to the difficulty of definitively fixing Mao's image, a project that amounts to writing a history of China's present.

The anthology, with a new introduction, draws on more than 100 newspapers and periodicals from the United States and Europe.

"Gifts From the Gods," an inventive blend of glossary and anthology, provides a fine introduction to one of the Greeks' enduring legacies: their impact on the English language.

In this edition of the translation that first appeared in the anthology, Heaney writes an introduction explaining that he decided to give the poem the voice of Northern Irish men he'd grown up with, making his work as translator a wrestling with the great poem as a personal recapitulation of the whole Irish struggle.

A semi-successful middle-aged poet, struggling to write an introduction to an anthology called "Only Rhyme," talks about poetry.

In an introduction to an anthology, he read that she "withdrew from life" beginning in her twenties.

In that delectable book, Paul was having trouble writing the introduction to an anthology of rhyming poetry, while his mind skittered sideways over multifold topics, notably loneliness.