Carolina QuotesThis sort of admission of error, of change, makes us trust a critic as nothing else but omniscience could...
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“B.H. Haggin”, p. 156
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 156
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