The Oral Study of LiteratureF. S. Crofts & Company, 1932 - 483 pages |
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Page 78
... POETS LACKING IN INTELLECT I by no means rank poetry or poets high in the scale of intellect . This may look like affectation , but it is my real opinion . It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake . They say ...
... POETS LACKING IN INTELLECT I by no means rank poetry or poets high in the scale of intellect . This may look like affectation , but it is my real opinion . It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake . They say ...
Page 113
... POETS AND CHILDREN ABANDON THEMSELVES TO MADNESS Perhaps no person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , with- out a certain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry ...
... POETS AND CHILDREN ABANDON THEMSELVES TO MADNESS Perhaps no person can be a poet , or can even enjoy poetry , with- out a certain unsoundness of mind , if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness . By poetry ...
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... poets at all , and the poets of the second order , and the poets of the first : only however great a man may be , there are always some subjects which ought to throw him off his balance ; some , by which his poor human capacity of ...
... poets at all , and the poets of the second order , and the poets of the first : only however great a man may be , there are always some subjects which ought to throw him off his balance ; some , by which his poor human capacity of ...
Contents
PREFACE INTRODUCTION | 1 |
PASSAGES FOR READING AND STUDY | 39 |
Assertion and Implication | 433 |
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