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This craft of verse
By Borges, Jorge Luis & Mihailescu, Calin Andrei
- ISBN
- 978-0-67400-290-6
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2000
For Borges (1899-1986), the central fact of life was the existence of words and their potential as building blocks of poetry. In this series of six long-forgotten lectures given at Harvard more than 30 years ago, he insists that reading (in English, primarily) gave him more pleasure than writing. Most of his examples are taken from English-speaking writers, such as Shakespeare, Keats, Byron, Whitman,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
