[New-Poetry] Aram Saroyan

[Robin Hamilton]

From: Joseph Duemer

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I think I must have first come to understand this from reading Williams' 
entry in Keywords years ago. It remains a very useful little book that I 
keep near at hand.

jd
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I think (though it's some considerable time since I've read it) that 
M.H.Abrahms has a long discussion of it in _The Mirror and the Lamp_.

I don't have a copy at hand to check.

I agree entirely about the usefulness of _Keywords_ -- I particularly like 
the entry on "Literature", and the way generally all the usages Williams 
gives are neatly date-stamped.

Robin


_December_ 18. 1831.

A STATE.--PERSONS AND THINGS.--HISTORY.

The difference between an inorganic and an organic body lies in this:--In
the first--a sheaf of corn--the whole is nothing more than a collection of
the individual parts or phenomena. In the second--a man--the whole is the
effect of, or results from, the parts; it--the whole--is every thing, and
the parts are nothing.

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