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... poet's gift of observation to be keen and demand that he should have great descriptive powers . This demand is reasonable only if we remember that we have no business to limit a poet's powers of description and of observa- tion to ...
... poet's gift of observation to be keen and demand that he should have great descriptive powers . This demand is reasonable only if we remember that we have no business to limit a poet's powers of description and of observa- tion to ...
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... poet who was a master of technique and who had immersed himself in Wagnerian opera while the poem was germinating in his mind . To deny that ... poet's technique . W. B. Yeats was never able to recall the rules ΙΟΙ THE FIRE AND THE FOUNTAIN.
... poet who was a master of technique and who had immersed himself in Wagnerian opera while the poem was germinating in his mind . To deny that ... poet's technique . W. B. Yeats was never able to recall the rules ΙΟΙ THE FIRE AND THE FOUNTAIN.
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... poet's imagery , but must be content to observe humbly the diversity of sources upon which poets have actually drawn . A remark of Whitehead's will help to remind us that poets may derive their sustenance in unexpected ways : ' What the ...
... poet's imagery , but must be content to observe humbly the diversity of sources upon which poets have actually drawn . A remark of Whitehead's will help to remind us that poets may derive their sustenance in unexpected ways : ' What the ...
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A. E. Housman animal sensibility archetypal artist Baudelaire beauty belief Blake blank verse cadences century childhood Cited Coleridge Common Asphodel complex contemporary convey couplet critics deep dreams elements emotional employs English poetry Essays evoke example experience expression F. W. Bateson faculties feeling flowers genius harmony Hopkins Housman human I. A. Richards ideas imagery imagination inspiration intellectual Keats language light lines literary living madness meaning memory Milton mind music of poetry mystery nature never passage passion pattern perception phrase play poem poet poet's poetic Pope prose prosody reader recognize remarkable reminds response rhyme rhythm rhythmical Robert Graves Romantic sense sensual sensuous Shakespeare Shelley significance song soul sound spirit stanza Stephen Spender suggests Swinburne Swinburne's symbol T. S. Eliot Tennyson themes theory things thought tion truth unconscious unconscious mind W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden W. R. Rodgers whole words Wordsworth Yeats's