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... argument , the thread that links all the chapters , is the conviction that the imagination and the reason are related . There will be those who regard ' imagination ' and ' reason ' as meaningless abstractions , mere echoes of an ...
... argument , the thread that links all the chapters , is the conviction that the imagination and the reason are related . There will be those who regard ' imagination ' and ' reason ' as meaningless abstractions , mere echoes of an ...
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... argument goes , is a philosophy that denies any creative role to the imagination ; it reduces imagination to a mode of memory or a merely decorative process . It would be foolish not to recognize some truth in the argu- ment that an ...
... argument goes , is a philosophy that denies any creative role to the imagination ; it reduces imagination to a mode of memory or a merely decorative process . It would be foolish not to recognize some truth in the argu- ment that an ...
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... argument are illustrated more clearly in some of the poems we have examined than in others , and the relationship traced between philosophy and poetry has varied from chapter to chapter . But the variation is one of emphasis and not ...
... argument are illustrated more clearly in some of the poems we have examined than in others , and the relationship traced between philosophy and poetry has varied from chapter to chapter . But the variation is one of emphasis and not ...
Contents
POETIC MEANING I | 1 |
MILTONS LYCIDAS | 21 |
POPES ESSAY ON MAN | 51 |
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