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... mind and that he de- plored both obscurity and emotional extravagances have long been apparent from his poetry and from his critical statements . Equally evident , however , is that he could write of the poet as one who , in the ecstasy ...
... mind and that he de- plored both obscurity and emotional extravagances have long been apparent from his poetry and from his critical statements . Equally evident , however , is that he could write of the poet as one who , in the ecstasy ...
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... mind sharply and in detail , that a number of his best poems were to be created . If the act of perception in itself had not carried its own authority , then Bryant's reading in the eighteenth - century philosophical psychologists ...
... mind sharply and in detail , that a number of his best poems were to be created . If the act of perception in itself had not carried its own authority , then Bryant's reading in the eighteenth - century philosophical psychologists ...
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... mind to these events . While the prose voice stood stolidly in the midst of multiple sensations , permitting itself only parenthetical expressions of feeling or thought , the poetic voice was compelled by its own nature to seek fullness ...
... mind to these events . While the prose voice stood stolidly in the midst of multiple sensations , permitting itself only parenthetical expressions of feeling or thought , the poetic voice was compelled by its own nature to seek fullness ...
Contents
Chronology | 13 |
The Poems of Nature | 39 |
The Poem of Death | 65 |
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