American Literature: An Anthology and Critical Survey, Volume 1C. Scribner's Sons, 1948 - 1120 pages |
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Page 575
... poet who lived in a garret and starved for his art , she declared exultantly of Longfellow , " Our poet is a gentleman ! " and went on to praise his taste in dress and his habit of taking his wife to the opera . Longfellow's popularity ...
... poet who lived in a garret and starved for his art , she declared exultantly of Longfellow , " Our poet is a gentleman ! " and went on to praise his taste in dress and his habit of taking his wife to the opera . Longfellow's popularity ...
Page 754
... poet are that he announces that which no man fore- told . He is the true and only doctor ; he knows and tells ; he is the only teller of news , for he was present and privy to the appearance which he describes . He is a beholder of ...
... poet are that he announces that which no man fore- told . He is the true and only doctor ; he knows and tells ; he is the only teller of news , for he was present and privy to the appearance which he describes . He is a beholder of ...
Page 758
... poet alone knows astronomy , chemistry , vegetation and animation , for he does not stop at these facts , but employs them as signs . He knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call suns and moons and ...
... poet alone knows astronomy , chemistry , vegetation and animation , for he does not stop at these facts , but employs them as signs . He knows why the plain or meadow of space was strown with these flowers we call suns and moons and ...
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