... that makes it so powerful when he provided a blurb for The Old Man and the Sea at Hemingway's prompting. (The Old Man and the Sea is) communicated in prose as calm and compelling as Homer's verse. No real artist symbolizes or allegorizes - and Hemingway is a real artist - but every real work of art exhales symbols and allegories"." (Hemingway, Ernest 785) The fundamental piece of this letter is the characterization of Hemingway as a real artist. Implying that clearly, there are people ... did cover adequately - nature, war, men, disillusionment, loss and death. In an increasingly unsure...

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