Find an error in each of these excerpts from student essays contained in Dr. Henriksson's book: *"Martin Luther Junior's famous 'If I Had a Hammer' speech".
The essays containing his philosophical reflections on literature are written in a dense and concentrated style that contains a strong poetic strain.
Can anything at all be said in its mitigation?If so, you will not find it in the essays contained in "Against the Wall".
This collection of the poet's major critical essays contains many valuations and opinions -- about the pre-eminence of Frost, Eliot and Stevens in the 20th-century pantheon of American poets, for example -- that were once considered provocative but have become orthodoxy today.
(The words of Judy Blume, M Scott Peck, Jimmy Carter and the essays contained in Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From the Women's Liberation Movement all make an appearance, as do clips from Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi).
His defence is witty, original and only slightly marred by the fact that most of the 16 essays contained in this collection were originally written for quite different purposes.
Eliade always kept a journal, and he published autobiographical volumes and collections of essays containing personal reflections on his own life and works as well as on scholarly, religious, social, and political developments in Romania and the world.
"Lonesome Rangers," Leonard's new collection of essays, contains some of his nimblest rambles through literary and leftist America, from a rumination on growing up (and growing old) alongside Philip Roth to a frenzied, brilliant rant on Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone," from falling in love with Mary McCarthy to falling down the stairwell with Primo Levi.
So the paradox seems to show up again (for more details, see the entry liar paradox and the collection of essays contained in Beall 2007).
