The American Treasury, 1455-1955Clifton Fadiman Harper, 1955 - 1108 pages Anthology of quotations by Americans, or about America, classified by subject. |
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... poem , " The Raven " ) , 1846 A poem , in my opinion , is opposed to a work of science by having , for its immediate object , pleasure , not truth ; to romance , by having for its object an indefinite instead of a definite pleasure ...
... poem , " The Raven " ) , 1846 A poem , in my opinion , is opposed to a work of science by having , for its immediate object , pleasure , not truth ; to romance , by having for its object an indefinite instead of a definite pleasure ...
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... poem run in the way I have described : from delight to wisdom . The figure is the same as for love . Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting . A poem may be worked over once it is in being , but may not ...
... poem run in the way I have described : from delight to wisdom . The figure is the same as for love . Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting . A poem may be worked over once it is in being , but may not ...
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... poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts . The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound - that he will never get over it . That is to say , permanence in poetry as in love ...
... poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts . The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound - that he will never get over it . That is to say , permanence in poetry as in love ...
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IN PARTICULAR | 32 |
THINKING CONTINENTALLY | 65 |
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