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... experience without flattering human weakness or blackening human excellence . The greatest need which men have is to secure some light upon truth . No single human being can trust his own experience of life . He needs to have his experience ...
... experience without flattering human weakness or blackening human excellence . The greatest need which men have is to secure some light upon truth . No single human being can trust his own experience of life . He needs to have his experience ...
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... experience even though they have not the artistic power to make their experience articulate and communicable to others . Of course poetic experience , the foundation fabric of poetry , is as varied as life itself . Sometimes poetry occu ...
... experience even though they have not the artistic power to make their experience articulate and communicable to others . Of course poetic experience , the foundation fabric of poetry , is as varied as life itself . Sometimes poetry occu ...
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... experience with common human experience . The most important characteristic of poetical com- munication is rhythm . In moments of strong feeling and heightened perception human expression seems to fall into rhythmic form . And this is ...
... experience with common human experience . The most important characteristic of poetical com- munication is rhythm . In moments of strong feeling and heightened perception human expression seems to fall into rhythmic form . And this is ...
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action Æschylus audience ballad beauty Ben Jonson characters charm classic climax comedy complete criticism Darcy death developed dominance drama dramatic literature dramatist Edipus eighteenth century Elizabeth Elizabethan emotional English literature epic essay essayist experience exposition expression fate feel fiction George Eliot Greek tragedy Hamlet heroic heroic couplet human Iago iambic iambic pentameter ideas illusion imaginative important incident influence intense interest King literary lives lyric lyrical poetry Matthew Arnold Milton mind modern narrative neo-classic never novel novelist Othello Pater pattern period play plot poem poet poetic poetry popular present Pride and Prejudice prose reader Renaissance rhyme rhythm romance satire scene sense Shakespeare social sometimes song sonnet soul speech spirit stage stanza story structure student style sweet Tale Tartuffe thee theme thou thought tion trimeter unity verse vivid Walter Pater women words writers
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Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |