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By " minor poems " I mean , of course , poems of little length . And here , in the beginning , permit me to say a few words in regard to a somewhat peculiar principle , which , whether rightfully or 20 wrongfully , has always had its ...
By " minor poems " I mean , of course , poems of little length . And here , in the beginning , permit me to say a few words in regard to a somewhat peculiar principle , which , whether rightfully or 20 wrongfully , has always had its ...
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Every poem , it is said , should inculcate a moral , and by this moral is the poetical merit of the work to be adjudged . We Americans especially have patronized this happy idea , and we Bostonians very especially have developed it in ...
Every poem , it is said , should inculcate a moral , and by this moral is the poetical merit of the work to be adjudged . We Americans especially have patronized this happy idea , and we Bostonians very especially have developed it in ...
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What we term a long poem is , in fact , merely a succession of brief ones- -that is to say , of brief poetical effects . It is needless to demonstrate that a poem is such , only in- asmuch as it intensely excites , by elevating ...
What we term a long poem is , in fact , merely a succession of brief ones- -that is to say , of brief poetical effects . It is needless to demonstrate that a poem is such , only in- asmuch as it intensely excites , by elevating ...
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| Title | American Literature: An Anthology and Critical Survey, Volume 1 American Literature: An Anthology and Critical Survey, John Towner Frederick |
| Editors | Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott |
| Compiled by | Joe Lee Davis, John Towner Frederick, Frank Luther Mott |
| Publisher | C. Scribner's Sons, 1948 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Dec 2006 |
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