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Page 35
... less sophisticated poems have their interest , for they often reveal the poet at work ; he is attempting to break through his limitations and reach out toward fuller realization of his themes . This outward thrust led him , over the ...
... less sophisticated poems have their interest , for they often reveal the poet at work ; he is attempting to break through his limitations and reach out toward fuller realization of his themes . This outward thrust led him , over the ...
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... less Transcendental than Byronic , more introspective than intuitive . Yet even the introspective tone had its weakness , quite apart from the philosophical implications . For , as Bryant might well have recognized , this is the tone of ...
... less Transcendental than Byronic , more introspective than intuitive . Yet even the introspective tone had its weakness , quite apart from the philosophical implications . For , as Bryant might well have recognized , this is the tone of ...
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... less restricted outpouring of poetic ideas , carried to a further extreme the binding " into one all the passages of human life . " The fine line which generally divides imagery from metaphor becomes gently obscured as all the phenomena ...
... less restricted outpouring of poetic ideas , carried to a further extreme the binding " into one all the passages of human life . " The fine line which generally divides imagery from metaphor becomes gently obscured as all the phenomena ...
Contents
Chronology | 13 |
The Poems of Nature | 39 |
The Poem of Death | 65 |
Copyright | |
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