American Writers: Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier
- ISBN-10
- 0684136627
- ISBN-13
- 9780684136622
- Series
- American Writers
- Pages
- 373
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Author
- Leonard Unger
Description
These sounds balance and counterbalance each other , and echo in strange places . ... flames that seem to burn wallpaper are echoes : reflections of a burning barn that in its own destructive way echoes the blacksmith's lovely forge .
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