Carolina Quotes...the work of a poet who has a real talent, but not for words.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
of The Listening Landscape by Marya Zaturenska; “Town Mouse, Country Mouse”, p. 69
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 69
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