Criticism: The Foundations of Modern Literary JudgmentMark Schorer, Josephine Miles, Gordon McKenzie Harcourt, Brace, 1948 - 553 pages |
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... Poetry , first , because it is such an admirable and provocative book , sane , lucid , generous - spirited , and second , because , to my mind , it illustrates the insidious- ness with which a doctrine of pure poetry can penetrate into ...
... Poetry , first , because it is such an admirable and provocative book , sane , lucid , generous - spirited , and second , because , to my mind , it illustrates the insidious- ness with which a doctrine of pure poetry can penetrate into ...
Page 489
... Poetry * and finer spirit of knowledge " offered to us by. ment , which he found just then in the clear , fresh ... poetry is immense , because Tin in poetry , where it is worthy of its high destinies , our race , as time goes on , will ...
... Poetry * and finer spirit of knowledge " offered to us by. ment , which he found just then in the clear , fresh ... poetry is immense , because Tin in poetry , where it is worthy of its high destinies , our race , as time goes on , will ...
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... poetry , and of all other poetry which is akin to it in quality . Only one thing we may add as to the sub- stance and matter of poetry , guiding ourselves by Aristotle's profound observation that the su- periority of poetry over history ...
... poetry , and of all other poetry which is akin to it in quality . Only one thing we may add as to the sub- stance and matter of poetry , guiding ourselves by Aristotle's profound observation that the su- periority of poetry over history ...
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