Preface to PoetryHarcourt, Brace, 1946 - 737 pages |
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... persons already favorably disposed toward poetry are often eager to know more about it ; and those who are ill disposed toward it , may be willing to undertake a study of it that is bound to shed some new and perhaps interesting light ...
... persons already favorably disposed toward poetry are often eager to know more about it ; and those who are ill disposed toward it , may be willing to undertake a study of it that is bound to shed some new and perhaps interesting light ...
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... person's assuming a belligerent attitude - he does no fighting at the moment , but he is apparently ready to do so ... persons have at some time had the experience of the Wedding Guest in Coleridge's poem , who was held by the eye of ...
... person's assuming a belligerent attitude - he does no fighting at the moment , but he is apparently ready to do so ... persons have at some time had the experience of the Wedding Guest in Coleridge's poem , who was held by the eye of ...
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... persons in one age , and no immediate value at all for most of the persons of another age , and that many " representative " and " revealing " poems of the past are not poems at all for modern readers . It is of value , however , to ...
... persons in one age , and no immediate value at all for most of the persons of another age , and that many " representative " and " revealing " poems of the past are not poems at all for modern readers . It is of value , however , to ...
Contents
ANATOMY OF THE POEMEXPERIENCE | 65 |
65 | 91 |
Visual and Other FreeImagery | 137 |
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