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Issue Details: First known date: 1976... 1976 The Craftsmanship of Lawson Revisited
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Dobrez questions why Lawson frequently lapsed into inferior kinds of inspiration such as sentimentality, melodrama, or cliche, and failed to pursue the "truth" further . Dobrez blames this on Lawson's lack of courage to transcend his audience and sustain the artistic tensions of his greatest passages.

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