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... Truth , trafficking in shameful fictions , and pandering to the baser passions , poetry deserves condemnation all round . Although Benedetto Croce has described Plato with some justi- fication as " the author of the only great negation ...
... Truth , trafficking in shameful fictions , and pandering to the baser passions , poetry deserves condemnation all round . Although Benedetto Croce has described Plato with some justi- fication as " the author of the only great negation ...
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K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Prema Nandakumar. Always is poetic truth general and operative , not witnessed only by the external world , but carried alive , as Wordsworth remarked , " into the heart of passion " ; and this truth is its own ...
K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Prema Nandakumar. Always is poetic truth general and operative , not witnessed only by the external world , but carried alive , as Wordsworth remarked , " into the heart of passion " ; and this truth is its own ...
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... truth , the utter truth , and nought else than the truth : the truth as felt by the senses , as seen by the imagination , and as embodied in language . Literature can ' use ' anything , and politics is no more taboo than love or war or ...
... truth , the utter truth , and nought else than the truth : the truth as felt by the senses , as seen by the imagination , and as embodied in language . Literature can ' use ' anything , and politics is no more taboo than love or war or ...
Contents
THE MAKING OF LITERATURE AND THe | 3 |
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE | 21 |
BACKGROUNDS CLASSICAL AND CHRISTIAN | 42 |
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