Faulkner initially started out in literature with poetry. ... Hamblin, "Not only did Phil Stone attempt to purchase many of the little magazines and obscure volumes of "modern" poetry" that were appearing in the teens and early twenties, but he was also able to readily make available to Faulkner the resources of the Stone family library. " Faulkner gained his humorous writings from popular authors such as Mark Twain. ... According to Warren, "It is important, I think, that Faulkner's work be regarded not in terms of the South against the North, but in terms of issues which are common to o...

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Literary Style: According to Langston Hughes, "Baldwin uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing....The thought becomes poetry and the poetry illuminates the thought." ... Meaning of Title: The title of the novel Another Country stipulates two explicit terms: love and racism. ...

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One must not think that Golding did not go unchanged from the war, because analysis of his pre-war poetry shows a much softer, more forgiving Golding. ... "Golding's hallmark: a polarity expressed in terms of a moral tension (Dick 121)." ...

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