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... whole - and if we further assume ( as the present writer , incidentally , is not prepared to assume ) a single authorship for the whole . Some other famous poems might at first sight be sug- gested as belonging to the class which ...
... whole - and if we further assume ( as the present writer , incidentally , is not prepared to assume ) a single authorship for the whole . Some other famous poems might at first sight be sug- gested as belonging to the class which ...
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... whole . ) Reason cannot as it were ) get outside the whole - outside the totality of things , including its own operations . But the poet's imagination can ; it gives us access , ( albeit fitfully and vaguely , ) to a ' transcendent ...
... whole . ) Reason cannot as it were ) get outside the whole - outside the totality of things , including its own operations . But the poet's imagination can ; it gives us access , ( albeit fitfully and vaguely , ) to a ' transcendent ...
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... whole . What is that ' whole ' to be ? Humanity as a whole makes an imperative claim , for it contains a common interest which transcends all local or tribal differences . It is in this common interest that the most real and lasting ...
... whole . What is that ' whole ' to be ? Humanity as a whole makes an imperative claim , for it contains a common interest which transcends all local or tribal differences . It is in this common interest that the most real and lasting ...
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Aeneas Aeneid appeal artist aspect Augustus battle of Actium battle of Benevento Beatrice beauty believe Bible century chapter Christian Cino da Pistoia conception consciousness culture Dante Dante's Divine Comedy earth embodied Empire essential ethical European evil expression fact Faust feel four poets Georgics Ghibelline give Goethe's Guelphs Guido Cavalcanti Heaven Hell human idea ideal imagination impression individual inspiration intellectual interest justice Karl Barth knowledge language light literature live long poem man's Mephistopheles Milton and Goethe mind modern myth nature Paradise Lost passions past perhaps philosophy picture Plato poet-prophets poet's poetry political present problem problem of Evil prophet Purgatory purpose reader realise reality Reason recognise religion Roman Rome seems sense significance single speaking Spinoza spirit story supreme things thought tion true truth unconscious unity Universe Virgil Western civilisation whole wisdom words writes