American Literature: From the beginning to 1860.-v. 2. From 1860 to the presentC. Scribner's Sons, 1948 |
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... poet that ever lived - I have left myself time to cite only a very brief specimen . I call him , and think him the noblest of poets - not because the impressions he pro- duces are at all times the most profound- not because the poetical ...
... poet that ever lived - I have left myself time to cite only a very brief specimen . I call him , and think him the noblest of poets - not because the impressions he pro- duces are at all times the most profound- not because the poetical ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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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