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... perhaps only metaphor and fantasy may reveal to public view . I have suggested that our awareness of our mortality fosters the impulse to art , a premeditated alteration of , imitation of or response to our condition . The content of ...
... perhaps only metaphor and fantasy may reveal to public view . I have suggested that our awareness of our mortality fosters the impulse to art , a premeditated alteration of , imitation of or response to our condition . The content of ...
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... Perhaps what they reject is the attitude itself , feeling ( without any historical basis ) that it is not the business of poetry to evoke scorn . Perhaps they yearn for exactly the same thing Eliot yearns for , a renewed fusion of ...
... Perhaps what they reject is the attitude itself , feeling ( without any historical basis ) that it is not the business of poetry to evoke scorn . Perhaps they yearn for exactly the same thing Eliot yearns for , a renewed fusion of ...
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... perhaps he has not , as most of us have not , resolved for himself the situation of the contemplative man of humane values in a tempestu- ous culture . I blushingly identify with the terrible sense of guilt in these poems of Lowell and ...
... perhaps he has not , as most of us have not , resolved for himself the situation of the contemplative man of humane values in a tempestu- ous culture . I blushingly identify with the terrible sense of guilt in these poems of Lowell and ...
Contents
poetry and use | 11 |
poetry and truth | 20 |
Questions for Study | 34 |
Copyright | |
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