Complete Poems of Edgar Allan PoeHeritage Press, 1943 - 214 pages |
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Page 56
... idea , is poetry : music , without the idea , is simply music : the idea , without the music , is prose from its very definiteness . What was meant by the invective against " him who had no music in his soul " ? To sum up this long ...
... idea , is poetry : music , without the idea , is simply music : the idea , without the music , is prose from its very definiteness . What was meant by the invective against " him who had no music in his soul " ? To sum up this long ...
Page 82
... idea that , to merit in poetry , pro- lixity is indispensable - has , for some years past , been gradually dying out of the public mind , by mere dint of its own absurdity , we find it succeeded by a heresy too palpably false to be long ...
... idea that , to merit in poetry , pro- lixity is indispensable - has , for some years past , been gradually dying out of the public mind , by mere dint of its own absurdity , we find it succeeded by a heresy too palpably false to be long ...
Page 155
... idea , first , of curtailing , and , secondly , of defining the length of , a sequence , would thus at once have arisen . Here then is the line , or verse proper . * The principle of equality being constantly at the bottom of the whole ...
... idea , first , of curtailing , and , secondly , of defining the length of , a sequence , would thus at once have arisen . Here then is the line , or verse proper . * The principle of equality being constantly at the bottom of the whole ...
Contents
The Editors Commentary | 2 |
Spirits of the Dead | 14 |
A Dream | 22 |
Copyright | |
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