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... thought . When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past ; and we perceive the greatness of those lines partly from what we have seen Shakespeare might have said and didn't , the mediocrity which he ...
... thought . When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past ; and we perceive the greatness of those lines partly from what we have seen Shakespeare might have said and didn't , the mediocrity which he ...
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... Thought and enrichment do not generally stand apart as two separate elements of a poem . The enrichment is simply way of expressing the thought beautifully , fully , freshly ; and in a sense , therefore , it is the thought , although we ...
... Thought and enrichment do not generally stand apart as two separate elements of a poem . The enrichment is simply way of expressing the thought beautifully , fully , freshly ; and in a sense , therefore , it is the thought , although we ...
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... thought that literature is mainly concerned : most plain thoughts go through the minds of thousands of people every day : they are the common property of all men . It is therefore not usually by the novelty of his thought that the poet ...
... thought that literature is mainly concerned : most plain thoughts go through the minds of thousands of people every day : they are the common property of all men . It is therefore not usually by the novelty of his thought that the poet ...
Contents
ENRICHMENT | 16 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 33 |
THE MECHANICS OF POETRY | 49 |
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