"A dramatic necessity goes deep into the nature of the sentence. Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic."
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Pulitzer Prize winnersPoets from the United States19th-century poets from the United StatesPoets from New HampshirePeople from San Francisco
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Preface to A Way Out: A One-act Play (1929)
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