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... experience , the experience being always and only the poet's own , the general- izations presented in such a way that they are not really gener- alizations at all , only personal knowledge of what is personally lived : ' The soul ...
... experience , the experience being always and only the poet's own , the general- izations presented in such a way that they are not really gener- alizations at all , only personal knowledge of what is personally lived : ' The soul ...
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... experience that the poem presents as it moves . Why should this be so ? Perhaps a system of belief as used in a work of literature is - whether the author intended it or not , and generally he did not - a groundwork patterning of ideas ...
... experience that the poem presents as it moves . Why should this be so ? Perhaps a system of belief as used in a work of literature is - whether the author intended it or not , and generally he did not - a groundwork patterning of ideas ...
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... experience that special kind of frisson that tells us we are engaging with an expression of some uni- quely revelatory insight into some aspect of experience . Such insights can be found in literature of many different ages and many ...
... experience that special kind of frisson that tells us we are engaging with an expression of some uni- quely revelatory insight into some aspect of experience . Such insights can be found in literature of many different ages and many ...
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