The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and miscellaniesAMS Press, 1979 |
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... poem , merely because it is an obvious rule of Art that effects should be made to spring from direct causes that objects should be attained through means best adapted for their attainment no one as yet having been weak enough to deny ...
... poem , merely because it is an obvious rule of Art that effects should be made to spring from direct causes that objects should be attained through means best adapted for their attainment no one as yet having been weak enough to deny ...
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... poem per se this poem which is a poem and nothing more this poem written solely for the poem's sake . very poem this I With as deep a reverence for the True as ever inspired the bosom of man , I would , nevertheless , limit , in some ...
... poem per se this poem which is a poem and nothing more this poem written solely for the poem's sake . very poem this I With as deep a reverence for the True as ever inspired the bosom of man , I would , nevertheless , limit , in some ...
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... poem . I cannot better introduce the few poems which I shall present for your consideration , than by the cita- tion of the Proem to Mr. Longfellow's " Waif " : The day is done , and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night , As a ...
... poem . I cannot better introduce the few poems which I shall present for your consideration , than by the cita- tion of the Proem to Mr. Longfellow's " Waif " : The day is done , and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night , As a ...
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