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... expression . The downright earthiness of the American vernacular , the latent ironies and humor of dialect , the possibilities of " organic " expression which united matter and idea in a single word or phrase - all of these were to ...
... expression . The downright earthiness of the American vernacular , the latent ironies and humor of dialect , the possibilities of " organic " expression which united matter and idea in a single word or phrase - all of these were to ...
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... expression - not for the perpetuation of an art form . Yet in this direction there is not much to guide us . Bryant offers little criticism , or even unpublished correspondence , that suggests what he felt to be the function of blank ...
... expression - not for the perpetuation of an art form . Yet in this direction there is not much to guide us . Bryant offers little criticism , or even unpublished correspondence , that suggests what he felt to be the function of blank ...
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... expressions of feeling or thought , the poetic voice was compelled by its own nature to seek fullness of expression even at the risk of disunity . Bryant had found in his reading in Reid and Stewart , the two leading exponents of the ...
... expressions of feeling or thought , the poetic voice was compelled by its own nature to seek fullness of expression even at the risk of disunity . Bryant had found in his reading in Reid and Stewart , the two leading exponents of the ...
Contents
Chronology | 13 |
The Poems of Nature | 39 |
The Poem of Death | 65 |
Copyright | |
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