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One of the most characteristic acts of poetry is to take two or more separate , apparently unrelated things ( images , objects , persons , qualities ) and put them together . They turn out , in the context of the poem , to be related ...
One of the most characteristic acts of poetry is to take two or more separate , apparently unrelated things ( images , objects , persons , qualities ) and put them together . They turn out , in the context of the poem , to be related ...
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things which discourage him most , and one of them is “ simple truth miscall'd simplicity . ” He saw things as they were , and his sophistication did not compel him to condescend to the commonplace . Things sometimes become clichés ...
things which discourage him most , and one of them is “ simple truth miscall'd simplicity . ” He saw things as they were , and his sophistication did not compel him to condescend to the commonplace . Things sometimes become clichés ...
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The young are “ caught , ” they are really passive and incapable of free action ; and they neglect those things which are ... “ Peace ; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak ; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and ...
The young are “ caught , ” they are really passive and incapable of free action ; and they neglect those things which are ... “ Peace ; most gladly have I escaped the thing of which you speak ; I feel as if I had escaped from a mad and ...
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Contents
Poems | 36 |
of the Queens Navee 50 LAWRENCE Snake 51 JEFFERS Hurt | 57 |
West Wind 68 HERRICK An Ode for Ben Jonson 71 GRAY Elegy | 76 |
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| Title | The Dimensions of Poetry: A Critical Anthology |
| Editors | James Edwin Miller, Bernice Slote |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead, 1966 |
| Length | 742 pages |
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