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"The Soul Inside The Sentence" - Reading Version
Reading version of Gass's essay, originally published in Salmagundi 56 (Spring 1982) and collected for Habitations of the Word. Photocopy of a typescript draft, with autograph corrections and notes.
"Each '...Is A Rose...' Is Different"
College essay by Gass about the refrain in poetry, with comments and grade by Professor Daiches.
"Wisconsin Death Trip"
Typescript draft fragments and autograph notes for Gass's review of Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy, published in June 24, 1973 issue of The New York Review of Books, and collected in The World Within the Word.
"The Doomed in Their Sinking"
One typescript draft of an essay written by Gass reviewing two books: The Savage God by A. Alvarez and Suicide by Jacques Choron, published in the May 18, 1972 issue of The New York Review of Books, and collected in The World Within the Word.
9/11 Topical Captions
Four captions written by Gass about the terrorism attacks of September 11, 2001, sent to photographer and friend, Michael Eastman, to accompany his Polaroid photographs of the event, for exhibit at the Missouri Historical Society in September 2002.…
The Equivocation of the Fiend
A college essay by Gass on the techniques of Shakespeare.