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... clear , nor was he consistently receptive ; but it was the chief agency by which he was led into his poems - and into personal dis- coveries of meaning and value . More specifically , there are four general areas into which Bryant's ...
... clear , nor was he consistently receptive ; but it was the chief agency by which he was led into his poems - and into personal dis- coveries of meaning and value . More specifically , there are four general areas into which Bryant's ...
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Albert F. McLean. form he sought , its applicability was clear enough . Consciously or not , " Thanatopsis " became a Romantic sermon . The division of the poem into three parts is clearly indicated by the stanzaic patterns . The first ...
Albert F. McLean. form he sought , its applicability was clear enough . Consciously or not , " Thanatopsis " became a Romantic sermon . The division of the poem into three parts is clearly indicated by the stanzaic patterns . The first ...
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... clear , original voice of his own genius . Though he sensed early and rightly that his was the way of the poet , he never truly understood the terms of his vocation . Though his voice in a few great poems rises to uniqueness , the ...
... clear , original voice of his own genius . Though he sensed early and rightly that his was the way of the poet , he never truly understood the terms of his vocation . Though his voice in a few great poems rises to uniqueness , the ...
Contents
Chronology | 13 |
The Poems of Nature | 39 |
The Poem of Death | 65 |
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