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Undue brevity is just as exceptionable here as in the poem ; but undue length is yet more to be avoided . We have said that the tale has a point of superiority even over the poem . In fact , while the rhythm of this latter is an ...
Undue brevity is just as exceptionable here as in the poem ; but undue length is yet more to be avoided . We have said that the tale has a point of superiority even over the poem . In fact , while the rhythm of this latter is an ...
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What we term a long poem is , in fact , merely a succession of brief ones — that is to say , of brief poetical effects . It is needless to demonstrate that a poem is such , only inasmuch as it intensely excites , by elevating , the soul ...
What we term a long poem is , in fact , merely a succession of brief ones — that is to say , of brief poetical effects . It is needless to demonstrate that a poem is such , only inasmuch as it intensely excites , by elevating , the soul ...
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Few readers of poetry have regarded poets in their first book have so Eliot's own poems in that style prophetically ... He studied ume , Poems , with “ Gerontion " at private academies , entered as its leading poem , again develHarvard ...
Few readers of poetry have regarded poets in their first book have so Eliot's own poems in that style prophetically ... He studied ume , Poems , with “ Gerontion " at private academies , entered as its leading poem , again develHarvard ...
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Contents
WILLIAM BRADFORD 15901657 | 14 |
ANNE BRADSTREET 1612?1672 | 21 |
EDWARD TAYLOR 1645?1729 | 35 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 1 |
| Editor | Sculley Bradley |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Norton, 1956 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 15 Jun 2009 |
| Length | 1575 pages |
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