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Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley choose

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[US] letter in P. Jay Sel. Correspondence of Burke and Cowley (1990) 118: I did, however, follow your blurb suggestions, I raved about your rare anti-romanticism.
at blurb, n.
[US] M. Cowley letter 5 May in Jay Sel. Correspondence of Burke and Cowley (1990) 119: They are a bit huffed.
at huff, v.
[US] letter 28 Jan. in P. Jay Sel. Correspondence of Burke and Cowley (1990) 135: I’m not ashamed to take off my coat anywhere and tell these cunt-lapping Europeans that I’m an American citizen.
at cunt-lapping, adj.
[US] letter 8 Nov. in P. Jay Sel. Correspondence of Burke and Cowley (1990) 147: I wrote a jazz poem in jazzy prose.
at jazzy, adj.1
[US] letter 28 Jan. in P. Jay Sel. Correspondence of Burke and Cowley (1990) 134: Shit, Kenneth, since when have you become a furniture salesman.
at shit!, excl.
[US] letter 1 May in P. Jay Sel. Correspondence of Burke and Cowley (1990) 245: Not a single burp or wheeze out of the old Blunder Bus (I am here referring to the Cadillac, not to myself).
at blunderbuss, n.3
[US] letter 27 Jan. in P. Jay Sel. Correspondence of Burke and Cowley (1990) 248: A publisher told me that a faithful phoebe had been going the rounds, presumably begging to be told that you were a C.P. because you didn’t support Franco.
at Feeb, n.
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