In Defense of Reading: A Reader's Approach to Literary CriticismReuben Arthur Brower, Richard Poirier |
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... speaker's gloomy self- concern and feelings of more generalized pathos . So careful is this balance , in fact , that one cannot be sure what direction the speaker's thoughts are taking . They seem to be drifting toward the images of ...
... speaker's gloomy self- concern and feelings of more generalized pathos . So careful is this balance , in fact , that one cannot be sure what direction the speaker's thoughts are taking . They seem to be drifting toward the images of ...
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... speaker's vision , which directs the reader's interpretation by control- ling the mood and meaning of the poem . To illustrate , the description of Satan's entrance into Eden , again our introduction to a new and unknown world ...
... speaker's vision , which directs the reader's interpretation by control- ling the mood and meaning of the poem . To illustrate , the description of Satan's entrance into Eden , again our introduction to a new and unknown world ...
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... speaker is tenuous compared with our certainty that the speaker is talking about Phos- phor in the first six lines , then , in the last six , talking to a " realist " who is primarily someone other than the speaker , and could be any ...
... speaker is tenuous compared with our certainty that the speaker is talking about Phos- phor in the first six lines , then , in the last six , talking to a " realist " who is primarily someone other than the speaker , and could be any ...
Contents
Fiction and History | 11 |
Lyric and Narrative Poetry | 22 |
Frosts Poetry of Dialogue | 38 |
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