The following pages are excerpted from
John Frederick Nims' Western Wind, An Introduction to Poetry:
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by William Blake
The following are essays by poets on aspects of writing poetry:
Denise Levertov's "On the Function of the Line"
Richard Hugo's essays from The Triggering Town
William Stafford's "A Way of Writing"
Tradition and the Individual Talent *
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