Word: circler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Born Circler. There are writers who shoot and there are writers who encircle their subject. Hemingway is an example of a writer who shoots and brings back the pelt. Lowry is a born circler. He scours the landscape-internally of his mind, externally of nature-hoping to surround and throttle the invisible demon that was both the subject and the object of his writing. His individual images are arresting, but what he did well, he overdid. There are page-long cascades of imagery, torrents of metaphors. The Wagnerian school of U.S. writing-Faulkner, Wolfe, Lowry-has apparently never heard...
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