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... culture . This search for origins , for ancestry , is the search for a sense of place in a culture which has no means for justification of the spiritual exercise of divine revelation . The poet returns to tribal culture and gathers a ...
... culture . This search for origins , for ancestry , is the search for a sense of place in a culture which has no means for justification of the spiritual exercise of divine revelation . The poet returns to tribal culture and gathers a ...
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... culture draws its attitude toward poetry ( indeed toward all that is " Art " with a capital A ) from the nineteenth - century notion that " primitive cultures , " that is , all cultures preceding this one , were simpler , some so much ...
... culture draws its attitude toward poetry ( indeed toward all that is " Art " with a capital A ) from the nineteenth - century notion that " primitive cultures , " that is , all cultures preceding this one , were simpler , some so much ...
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... a sense of history and humanity , and our own culture , a culture grown wealthy as a result of cross - cultural pollination , is strengthened . Chinese culture itself provides a perfect example of the ultimate 146 A POET'S WORK.
... a sense of history and humanity , and our own culture , a culture grown wealthy as a result of cross - cultural pollination , is strengthened . Chinese culture itself provides a perfect example of the ultimate 146 A POET'S WORK.
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