Carolina QuotesBoth in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody’s hair stand on end; he is always crying: “But he hasn’t any clothes on!” about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“Fifty Years of American Poetry”, p. 331
- work
- The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
- year
- 1969
- locator
- p. 331
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“Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out …” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-5A4FE7F48B. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/5a4fe7f48b
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