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CANET Lecture First : On the Nature of Poetry ' In treating of the subject which has been assigned me , it is obvious that it will be impossible for me to compress into four lectures anything like a complete view of it .
CANET Lecture First : On the Nature of Poetry ' In treating of the subject which has been assigned me , it is obvious that it will be impossible for me to compress into four lectures anything like a complete view of it .
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There is no question that one principal office of poetry is to excite the imagination , but this is not its sole , nor perhaps its chief , province ; another of its ends is to touch the heart , and , as I expect to show in this lecture ...
There is no question that one principal office of poetry is to excite the imagination , but this is not its sole , nor perhaps its chief , province ; another of its ends is to touch the heart , and , as I expect to show in this lecture ...
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What , then , is the ground of the distinction between prose and poetry ? This is a question about which there has been much debate , but one which seems to me of easy solution to those who are not too ambitious of distinguishing ...
What , then , is the ground of the distinction between prose and poetry ? This is a question about which there has been much debate , but one which seems to me of easy solution to those who are not too ambitious of distinguishing ...
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Contents
Four Early Travelers and Observers | 1 |
George Alsop 1638post 1666 | 27 |
Of the Situation and plenty | 34 |
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| Title | American Literature: Tradition & Innovation, Volume 1 American Literature: Tradition & Innovation, Harrison T. Meserole |
| Editors | Harrison T. Meserole, Walter Sutton, Brom Weber |
| Compiled by | Harrison T. Meserole, Walter Sutton, Brom Weber |
| Publisher | Heath, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 1854 pages |
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