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... living experience " . The scientist needs language to name and describe phenomena , and the poet needs language to explore and incarnate the inner life of man . It is thus clear that Man's civilisation owes not a little to the power of ...
... living experience " . The scientist needs language to name and describe phenomena , and the poet needs language to explore and incarnate the inner life of man . It is thus clear that Man's civilisation owes not a little to the power of ...
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... living tradition . But in Australia , Canada or New Zealand , the inherited tradition either meets the local impact resolutely , or literature becomes but a pale imitation of English literature . Like the passage from colonialism to Com ...
... living tradition . But in Australia , Canada or New Zealand , the inherited tradition either meets the local impact resolutely , or literature becomes but a pale imitation of English literature . Like the passage from colonialism to Com ...
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... living cosmos : capable of change and growth , and carrying the seeds of decay and the danger of death : and death ... living and the living to the unborn " . Poetry is thus a means of melting our petrified egoisms and making us ...
... living cosmos : capable of change and growth , and carrying the seeds of decay and the danger of death : and death ... living and the living to the unborn " . Poetry is thus a means of melting our petrified egoisms and making us ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF LITERATURE AND THe | 3 |
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE | 21 |
BACKGROUNDS CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN | 42 |
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action Aeschylus Aristotle artistic ballad Basil Willey beauty Book C. S. Lewis century character Christian civilisation classical Collective Unconscious creation creative critic D. H. Lawrence death Divine drama E. M. Forster earth elements emotion England English literature epic essay experience expression feeling fiction Greek Hamartia heart Heaven heroic Homer human humour imagination India inner intellectual language lines literary lyric matter meaning mediaeval metre Milton mind modern movement myths narrative nature novel novelist Oedipus Paradise Lost passions personality philosophy play plot poem poet poet's poetic poetry political prose psychic R. K. Narayan Rasa reader realise reality Renaissance rhyme rhythm Romantic Romanticism Samson satire says sense sensibility Shakespeare social society sonnet Sophocles soul speech spirit Sri Aurobindo story style sublime symbol symbolistic T. S. Eliot theme things thought tion tradition trochees truth ture unity verse vision whole words writing