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... an autobiographic interest sufficient to justify their publication . Others again , often mere fragments , have been 1 Selected Poems : Little Classic Edition . admitted as characteristic , or as expressing in poetic form.
... an autobiographic interest sufficient to justify their publication . Others again , often mere fragments , have been 1 Selected Poems : Little Classic Edition . admitted as characteristic , or as expressing in poetic form.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. admitted as characteristic , or as expressing in poetic form thoughts found in the Essays . " In coming to a decision in these cases it seemed , on the whole , preferable to take the risk of including too much rather ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. admitted as characteristic , or as expressing in poetic form thoughts found in the Essays . " In coming to a decision in these cases it seemed , on the whole , preferable to take the risk of including too much rather ...
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... poets . It was his lot to be Joy - giver and enjoyer , as his Saadi says the poet should be , and , though not thinking highly of his own work , he said , " I am more of a poet than anything else . " In September , 1839 , he wrote to ...
... poets . It was his lot to be Joy - giver and enjoyer , as his Saadi says the poet should be , and , though not thinking highly of his own work , he said , " I am more of a poet than anything else . " In September , 1839 , he wrote to ...
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... The miller , like the poet , is a lazy . man , setting his wheel in the Stream ; and added , " But his watching is work . " " " Dr. Holmes , in the last years of his life , studied his friend's poems and tried him by his own X PREFACE.
... The miller , like the poet , is a lazy . man , setting his wheel in the Stream ; and added , " But his watching is work . " " " Dr. Holmes , in the last years of his life , studied his friend's poems and tried him by his own X PREFACE.
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... poets or not ? " The great poets are judged by the frame of mind which they induce ; and to them , of all the severest criticism is due . ' men , " These are Emerson's words in the Preface to Parnassus . His own poems will stand the ...
... poets or not ? " The great poets are judged by the frame of mind which they induce ; and to them , of all the severest criticism is due . ' men , " These are Emerson's words in the Preface to Parnassus . His own poems will stand the ...
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