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... epic , even if it be clouded still — in Poe's phrase by many a " passage of platitude which no critical prejudgment can force us to admire . " Design But there is still another justification , and a more powerful one . It is one which ...
... epic , even if it be clouded still — in Poe's phrase by many a " passage of platitude which no critical prejudgment can force us to admire . " Design But there is still another justification , and a more powerful one . It is one which ...
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... epic , or have chosen the old conventional form . Stephen Vincent Benét's long poem , John Brown's Body , ap- peared in 1927. Whether classifiable as a pure epic or not is a question not worth debating ; it has epic elements and it has ...
... epic , or have chosen the old conventional form . Stephen Vincent Benét's long poem , John Brown's Body , ap- peared in 1927. Whether classifiable as a pure epic or not is a question not worth debating ; it has epic elements and it has ...
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... epic conventions ; he has kept most of them , but he has varied their use in such a way as to give his poem a form peculiarly his own . The heroes , for instance , are not , as in the Iliad , the Aeneid , or Paradise Lost , constantly ...
... epic conventions ; he has kept most of them , but he has varied their use in such a way as to give his poem a form peculiarly his own . The heroes , for instance , are not , as in the Iliad , the Aeneid , or Paradise Lost , constantly ...
Contents
ENRICHMENT | 16 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 33 |
THE MECHANICS OF POETRY | 49 |
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