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... artist . Only slightly submerged beneath the surface are the intellectual issues which many of his subsequent poems probe . There is , first , the questioning posture which always falls just short of agnosticism . There is , second ...
... artist . Only slightly submerged beneath the surface are the intellectual issues which many of his subsequent poems probe . There is , first , the questioning posture which always falls just short of agnosticism . There is , second ...
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... artist , that it probes at the hidden roots of Transcendentalism - both as an esthetic theory and as a religious philosophy - will be evident to the students of literature and of the history of culture . Later chapters shall be more ...
... artist , that it probes at the hidden roots of Transcendentalism - both as an esthetic theory and as a religious philosophy - will be evident to the students of literature and of the history of culture . Later chapters shall be more ...
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... artistic purposes , was no easy matter ; for his childhood religious background , his reading in the so - called " graveyard poets , " and his respect for established modes of thought , all conspired to lead him directly from experience ...
... artistic purposes , was no easy matter ; for his childhood religious background , his reading in the so - called " graveyard poets , " and his respect for established modes of thought , all conspired to lead him directly from experience ...
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