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WORDS AND POETRY ' A STORY is told of Degas , who , in the intervals of painting , amused himself by writing sonnets , and on ... My dear Degas , ' was Mallarmé's reply , ' poetry is not written with ideas ; it is written with words .
WORDS AND POETRY ' A STORY is told of Degas , who , in the intervals of painting , amused himself by writing sonnets , and on ... My dear Degas , ' was Mallarmé's reply , ' poetry is not written with ideas ; it is written with words .
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One further passage even more beautiful and characteristic , perhaps , may be quoted from a letter to Sir T. Lucy : ' I make account that the writing of letters , when it is with any serious- ness , is a kind of ecstasy , and a ...
One further passage even more beautiful and characteristic , perhaps , may be quoted from a letter to Sir T. Lucy : ' I make account that the writing of letters , when it is with any serious- ness , is a kind of ecstasy , and a ...
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Yet if you had alighted from your horse at our door this morning , and at this present writing , being five o'clock in the ... that a letter may be written on anything or nothing , just as that anything or nothing happens to occur .
Yet if you had alighted from your horse at our door this morning , and at this present writing , being five o'clock in the ... that a letter may be written on anything or nothing , just as that anything or nothing happens to occur .
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
RABELAIS The New Statesman Feb 16 1918 CHARAC | 31 |
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| Title | Literary Essays His Collected works Volume 5 of Strachey: The coll. works The Collected works of Lytton Strachey, Lytton Strachey |
| Author | Lytton Strachey |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus, 1948 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 295 pages |
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