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Page xxi
... experience do some- thing to him , but he does something to the experience . It is this reciprocity between nature and man , so to speak , that produces the art - work ; and in this Introduction I have been concerned only with the basic ...
... experience do some- thing to him , but he does something to the experience . It is this reciprocity between nature and man , so to speak , that produces the art - work ; and in this Introduction I have been concerned only with the basic ...
Page 162
... experience which have been like it ; and where they have had the same effect upon us as the new occur- rence , we ... experience , it is true to life . The poetical expressions enumerated in con- nection with sleep are evident to anyone ...
... experience which have been like it ; and where they have had the same effect upon us as the new occur- rence , we ... experience , it is true to life . The poetical expressions enumerated in con- nection with sleep are evident to anyone ...
Page 372
... experience . His knowledge of life and of living is broadened , though without the sacrifice required by actual experience . From participating in the variety of feelings of other human beings , he comes to understand humanity as it is ...
... experience . His knowledge of life and of living is broadened , though without the sacrifice required by actual experience . From participating in the variety of feelings of other human beings , he comes to understand humanity as it is ...
Contents
ENRICHMENT | 16 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 33 |
THE MECHANICS OF POETRY | 49 |
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