Carolina QuotesMarx said that he had stood Hegel on his head; often Mr. [Horace] Gregory has simply stood Pollyana on her head.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“Town Mouse, Country Mouse”, p. 70
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 70
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