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The great, unfulfilled, hope of American fiction in the 1930s, Delmore Schwartz, put this explicitly: "For the first time in fiction America's social mobility has been transformed into a spiritual energy which is not doomed to flight, renunciation, exile, denunciation, the agonised hyper-intelligence of Henry James, or the hysterical cheering of Walter Whitman".
As Delmore Schwartz phrased it in an early review: 'For the first time in fiction, America's social mobility has been transformed into a spiritual energy which is not doomed to flight, renunciation, exile, denunciation, the agonised hyper-intelligence of Henry James, or the hysterical cheering of Walter Whitman.' Bellow was born in Quebec and smuggled across the Great Lakes when he was an infant.
The last four lines "say it all", declaring the elegy's moral with all the fierce scorn and denunciation the iambic tetrameter can liberate: "Let pride be taught by this rebuke, / How very mean a thing's a duke; / From all his ill-got honours flung, / Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung" A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General His Grace! impossible! what, dead!
Second, as is often the case with the politics of denunciation, the rhetoric is strident and overblown.
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She was his armor against the harassment, the denunciations in the official press, the late-night phone threats from thugs at Lubyanka.
Had the denunciation of the doctor been a mistake?
which precipitated the denunciation; and the Fourth Symphony, described in Grove's Dictionary as "a colossal synthesis of Shostakovich's musical development to date".
There were the same denunciations, the same digressions – and the same enthusiasm.
Yet, these proposals have not been the subject of any denunciation by the intellectual community on the left.
His foreign-policy stance and his evangelical denunciation of the wickedness of the papacy aroused the hostility of Pope Alexander VI.
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