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Laura Quinney

Laura Quinney is the author of Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth and The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery. She teaches at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Selected bibliography

  • The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery (1999)
  • Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth by Laura Quinney, foreword by Harold Bloom (1995)

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