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Year

1922

Text

Paul Bowles bought his first book of poetry, Arthur Waley's A hundred and seventy Chinese poems.
"Poetry had never interested me ; in school I had been made to memorize a bit of verse by Bryant or Whittier or Longfellow, and then as soon as possible, I had forgotten it. Waley's compact little pellets, however, suggested the existence of a whole series of other purposes for which the poetic process could be used. I began to look at the real world around me with the idea of defining it in as few words as possible."

Mentioned People (1)

Bowles, Paul (2)  (Queens, N.Y. 1910-1999 Tanger) : Schriftsteller, Übersetzer, Komponist

Subjects

Literature : Occident : United States of America

Documents (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1989 Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher. An invisible spectator : a biography of Paul Bowles. (New York, N.Y. : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989).
http://books.google.ch/books?id=Mn6n43dZ04UC&pg=PT19&lpg=PT19&dq=paul+bowles+arthur+
waley&source=bl&ots=ywOhDF0Pmh&sig=jR7YTva9XQRUWod8poudVe3oYDU&hl=de&sa=X&ei=
1Z_DU4ytKsjB7Aa6g4HQDw&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCTgK#v=snippet&q=arthur%20waley&f=false
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Publication / BowP2