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... poetry the idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion , of divine illusion . Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea ; the idea is the fact . The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.5 In spite of his ...
... poetry the idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion , of divine illusion . Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea ; the idea is the fact . The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.5 In spite of his ...
Page 203
... poetry I want ' , the poetry of fact , of science , of technology , a poetry which recognizes and comes to terms with all the concepts developed by modern science , a poetry that takes account of all literatures and all languages , a ...
... poetry I want ' , the poetry of fact , of science , of technology , a poetry which recognizes and comes to terms with all the concepts developed by modern science , a poetry that takes account of all literatures and all languages , a ...
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... poetic value as that expressed by A.E. Housman in his lecture The Name and Nature of Poetry , where he said that when a line of poetry came into his head when he was shaving he could tell if it was genuine poetry by the way the hair on ...
... poetic value as that expressed by A.E. Housman in his lecture The Name and Nature of Poetry , where he said that when a line of poetry came into his head when he was shaving he could tell if it was genuine poetry by the way the hair on ...
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