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... mind . In my judgment the English understanding of poetry has unfolded itself slowly , passing through certain well - marked crises or epochs at each of which has stood a revolter from past practice who , setting up antagonistic , yet ...
... mind . In my judgment the English understanding of poetry has unfolded itself slowly , passing through certain well - marked crises or epochs at each of which has stood a revolter from past practice who , setting up antagonistic , yet ...
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... mind of the poet . We readers are interested in accompanying that mind and in adding its emotions to our own . We might , then , offer a preliminary definition of poetry , considered from the poet's point of view , and call it the ...
... mind of the poet . We readers are interested in accompanying that mind and in adding its emotions to our own . We might , then , offer a preliminary definition of poetry , considered from the poet's point of view , and call it the ...
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... mind . 66 99 A striking bit of evidence that the real ground of poetry does thus lie within the poet himself , rather than in the facts which purport to be his subject , is furnished by a group of poems whose professed aim is objective ...
... mind . 66 99 A striking bit of evidence that the real ground of poetry does thus lie within the poet himself , rather than in the facts which purport to be his subject , is furnished by a group of poems whose professed aim is objective ...
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... mind , ability to keep feeling fresh under inspection , and a gradual mastery of those artistic agencies which time has proved to have the power of appeal . Accordingly I have felt obliged to clog my definition of poetry with an ...
... mind , ability to keep feeling fresh under inspection , and a gradual mastery of those artistic agencies which time has proved to have the power of appeal . Accordingly I have felt obliged to clog my definition of poetry with an ...
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... mind I give a familiar example of each : The curfew tōlls | the knell | of pār | ting dãy Tell me not in | mōurnful | nūmbers I am mōn arch of all I survey Hālf a league , | hālf a league , | hālf a league | ōnward . How many feet shall ...
... mind I give a familiar example of each : The curfew tōlls | the knell | of pār | ting dãy Tell me not in | mōurnful | nūmbers I am mōn arch of all I survey Hālf a league , | hālf a league , | hālf a league | ōnward . How many feet shall ...
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