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... original language a barbaric yawp . The two , mutually resistive , tools of culture combine to frame an epiphany , a moment of recognition . The poem achieves universality in part through its compassionate tone and in part through its ...
... original language a barbaric yawp . The two , mutually resistive , tools of culture combine to frame an epiphany , a moment of recognition . The poem achieves universality in part through its compassionate tone and in part through its ...
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... original . Thus they miss not only melopoeic equivalents , but the logopoeic as well . And because they have committed themselves to a verbal Procrustean bed , they also misrepresent the phanopoeic juxtapositions of the original ...
... original . Thus they miss not only melopoeic equivalents , but the logopoeic as well . And because they have committed themselves to a verbal Procrustean bed , they also misrepresent the phanopoeic juxtapositions of the original ...
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... original have been maintained even though my own dynamics have merged with the poet's . I wear my conscience where it belongs : at the tip of my pen , and not on my sleeve like a medieval garter . " Our poetry has been grandly ennobled ...
... original have been maintained even though my own dynamics have merged with the poet's . I wear my conscience where it belongs : at the tip of my pen , and not on my sleeve like a medieval garter . " Our poetry has been grandly ennobled ...
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Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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