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Albert F. McLean. CHAPTER 2 The Poems of Nature ' N ONE of the few passages in his poetry that explicitly per- sonifies Nature , Bryant was to express his major insight into the meaning which the natural world had for him : To him who in ...
Albert F. McLean. CHAPTER 2 The Poems of Nature ' N ONE of the few passages in his poetry that explicitly per- sonifies Nature , Bryant was to express his major insight into the meaning which the natural world had for him : To him who in ...
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... Nature holds for man ( " Our sorrows touch you not . " ) ; and second , the superior survival power of natural objects ( " Ye have no history . ” ) . These melancholy themes , even though lacking in complete integration into this poem ...
... Nature holds for man ( " Our sorrows touch you not . " ) ; and second , the superior survival power of natural objects ( " Ye have no history . ” ) . These melancholy themes , even though lacking in complete integration into this poem ...
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... Nature as his voice , and then going a step further than was his usual practice in establishing the philosoph- ical base upon which his poem was to be founded . Nature was more than environment ; Nature becomes , in Baudelaire's famous ...
... Nature as his voice , and then going a step further than was his usual practice in establishing the philosoph- ical base upon which his poem was to be founded . Nature was more than environment ; Nature becomes , in Baudelaire's famous ...
Contents
Chronology | 13 |
The Poems of Nature | 39 |
The Poem of Death | 65 |
Copyright | |
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