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... poetry is first to learn what poetry is and then to apply our canons or definitions to the poem in hand . It is a plausible theory ; only - it doesn't work . The fact is , of course , that nobody knows with any definite- ness what ...
... poetry is first to learn what poetry is and then to apply our canons or definitions to the poem in hand . It is a plausible theory ; only - it doesn't work . The fact is , of course , that nobody knows with any definite- ness what ...
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... poets and critics are erected into criteria and used as if they provided an infallible differentia . How tiresomely we hear it repeated that poetry is ' the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling ' and is ' emotion recol- lected in ...
... poets and critics are erected into criteria and used as if they provided an infallible differentia . How tiresomely we hear it repeated that poetry is ' the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling ' and is ' emotion recol- lected in ...
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... poetry ( and of course there is much interesting matter in it besides ) , but we do not teach poetry . I myself happen to be so constituted that there is really nothing about poetry that does not interest me , whether of thought ...
... poetry ( and of course there is much interesting matter in it besides ) , but we do not teach poetry . I myself happen to be so constituted that there is really nothing about poetry that does not interest me , whether of thought ...
Contents
ENRICHMENT | 16 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 33 |
THE MECHANICS OF POETRY | 49 |
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