The Poetry Cure: A Pocket Medicine Chest of VerseRobert Haven Schauffler Dodd, Mead, 1925 - 414 pages |
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... thing was still more needed than musical therapeu- tics . This was The Poetry Cure . I had dreamed of a cheap and convenient pocket anthology of remedies for such troubles as fear , fatigue , swollen ego , ingrowing ugliness , the blues ...
... thing was still more needed than musical therapeu- tics . This was The Poetry Cure . I had dreamed of a cheap and convenient pocket anthology of remedies for such troubles as fear , fatigue , swollen ego , ingrowing ugliness , the blues ...
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... things to all men . For a long period I studied , collected , and tried the effects of various sorts of verse on patients in my poetic clinic . Finally , a year ago , it grew evident that enough poems might be counted on to affect ...
... things to all men . For a long period I studied , collected , and tried the effects of various sorts of verse on patients in my poetic clinic . Finally , a year ago , it grew evident that enough poems might be counted on to affect ...
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... things and set my mind at rest . " William Blake was in the secret too : " I was angry with my friend : I told my wrath , my wrath did end . I was angry with my foe : I told it not , my wrath did grow . " And William H. Davies , the ...
... things and set my mind at rest . " William Blake was in the secret too : " I was angry with my friend : I told my wrath , my wrath did end . I was angry with my foe : I told it not , my wrath did grow . " And William H. Davies , the ...
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... thing called a psychic mechanism . There are three principal kinds : mechanisms of escape , of self - defence and of compensation . A word about this trio . As I understand it , escape is simply taking refuge from the actual . Obeying a ...
... thing called a psychic mechanism . There are three principal kinds : mechanisms of escape , of self - defence and of compensation . A word about this trio . As I understand it , escape is simply taking refuge from the actual . Obeying a ...
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... things in life for us . They are so valuable because , as Everett Dean Martin explains , 1 they help men to keep their " personality pictures " unbroken , " to save their self - valuations - their souls . " Now , when we find the poet ...
... things in life for us . They are so valuable because , as Everett Dean Martin explains , 1 they help men to keep their " personality pictures " unbroken , " to save their self - valuations - their souls . " Now , when we find the poet ...
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