Word: riverhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ALTHOUGH in most instances that emasculated anomaly called "poetic prose" is to be deprecated, it is impossible to deny that from poetry and the poetic mind, prose can gain much to its advantage without losing its own character and strength. "Riverhead," a novel conceived as a novel, but conceived by a poet, who brings to prose, unconsciously perhaps, his lyric sensitiveness and intensity, is more than sufficient justification for this statement. it is a book that has elements of romanticism, realism, and humor, a combination as happy as it is rare in our time. it has a compact, simple, strong...
...contested against an inability to come to any decision, much as strength and weakness are opposed in most people. He is an ingenious, attractive lad whose life has been ruined by family heritage, an abnormal childhood, and his chronic incapacity to cope with the situations he comes up against, "Riverhead" deals with the metamorphosis of this last characteristic...
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