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T. S. ELIOT: The Making of an American Poet, 1888-1922. By James E. Miller Jr. Pennsylvania State Univ. preG.468 pp. $39.95
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"turning exile and alien- ty," Dickstein observes, "Nabokov shows us ation into a unique vantage point, an angle of the shock of alienation as effectively as his vision far interpreting the world." TheSound of SaIinger's Silence"Reading Salinger's Silence" Myles Weber, in New England Review, (Vol. 26, No. 2), Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. 05753.(Often when people say they write only for writing. He refuses to talk to the press and lives themselves, eve...