Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the WorldGregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt div Essays on the craft and relevance of poetry by distinguished practitioners and teachers of the art br /div |
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... Homer is still read because he did not define his audience too narrowly , and we can't be sure now to what extent Homer spoke for his culture and to what extent he helped create his culture by using the old stories in a new way . For ...
... Homer is still read because he did not define his audience too narrowly , and we can't be sure now to what extent Homer spoke for his culture and to what extent he helped create his culture by using the old stories in a new way . For ...
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... Homer's time and what it took for these poets , all of whom knew Homer's work and were instructed by it , to move in the new direction they chose . At the time of the lyricists , the act of seeing had come to be understood in a ...
... Homer's time and what it took for these poets , all of whom knew Homer's work and were instructed by it , to move in the new direction they chose . At the time of the lyricists , the act of seeing had come to be understood in a ...
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... [ Homer's contemporaries ] were concerned it didn't exist . " 12 By the time of the lyric poets the act of seeing was understood as a function independent of the object beheld , and two words , similar to what we have in " to see " and ...
... [ Homer's contemporaries ] were concerned it didn't exist . " 12 By the time of the lyric poets the act of seeing was understood as a function independent of the object beheld , and two words , similar to what we have in " to see " and ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Obstinate Humanity | 23 |
MARIANNE BORUCH | 48 |
Copyright | |
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