Littell's Living Age, Volume 303, Issue 3933Littell, Son and Company, 1919 |
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Page 478
... poet preserves his susceptibility to truth , poetic enthusiasm remains to comfort and inspire him , even though he had parted with every other honorable quality . November 21 , 1916 . The doctrines of ' uplift ' and social service are ...
... poet preserves his susceptibility to truth , poetic enthusiasm remains to comfort and inspire him , even though he had parted with every other honorable quality . November 21 , 1916 . The doctrines of ' uplift ' and social service are ...
Page 479
... poet hates that kind of crudity , so popular in journalism , which is unsifted truth . Anything , false or true , will do for the people who serve . Like the Cath- olic Church , they are persuaded that they are out for something more ...
... poet hates that kind of crudity , so popular in journalism , which is unsifted truth . Anything , false or true , will do for the people who serve . Like the Cath- olic Church , they are persuaded that they are out for something more ...
Page 480
... poets ' quest of truth separates poets even from poets . October 19 , 1917 . It is my belief that if the whole world had spoken Greek we should not have their great literature . and The other day I was at was maintaining that after the ...
... poets ' quest of truth separates poets even from poets . October 19 , 1917 . It is my belief that if the whole world had spoken Greek we should not have their great literature . and The other day I was at was maintaining that after the ...
Page 482
... poet's opportunity ; prose , com- edy , humor , tragedy , and all the emotions as well as the feelings . I have already said to you that I think emotion is feeling which has passed into the nerves , and takes possession of the nerves ...
... poet's opportunity ; prose , com- edy , humor , tragedy , and all the emotions as well as the feelings . I have already said to you that I think emotion is feeling which has passed into the nerves , and takes possession of the nerves ...
Page 483
... poet's ' love ' nothing more than affection familiar to us all , and especially to women and children , crowned and endiademed . The acorn of poetic genius is nour- ished by the most amiable of all the feelings the gentlest , tenderest ...
... poet's ' love ' nothing more than affection familiar to us all , and especially to women and children , crowned and endiademed . The acorn of poetic genius is nour- ished by the most amiable of all the feelings the gentlest , tenderest ...
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