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... poetry . Matthew Arnold picked out , as one of the essentials of poetry , what he called “ nat- ural magic , " the recognition of which is one of the ways , perhaps ultimately the only way , by which we know a work is poetry . We do not ...
... poetry . Matthew Arnold picked out , as one of the essentials of poetry , what he called “ nat- ural magic , " the recognition of which is one of the ways , perhaps ultimately the only way , by which we know a work is poetry . We do not ...
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... poetry , will enable him to express moments of consciousness in his characters common to all but hitherto only expressible in poetry . We find ex- amples of both in Meredith . But Meredith was also a poet in the technical sense , and ...
... poetry , will enable him to express moments of consciousness in his characters common to all but hitherto only expressible in poetry . We find ex- amples of both in Meredith . But Meredith was also a poet in the technical sense , and ...
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... poetry we have no word adequately to describe them . The passage is complex , but the complexity is that of poetry . A perception , " He must be good ... " with all its implications , has crystallized . We have , in fact , some- thing ...
... poetry we have no word adequately to describe them . The passage is complex , but the complexity is that of poetry . A perception , " He must be good ... " with all its implications , has crystallized . We have , in fact , some- thing ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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