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... poet , he could maintain a cool distance and a relationship entirely devoid of any but the most prosaic of considerations . In 1819 , upon being strenuously pressed by Channing for more material , Bryant replied with a diffidence that ...
... poet , he could maintain a cool distance and a relationship entirely devoid of any but the most prosaic of considerations . In 1819 , upon being strenuously pressed by Channing for more material , Bryant replied with a diffidence that ...
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... poet , above ordinary men , cultivates . Particularly is this true of the poet who writes in an open society that is relatively free from the taboos and rituals of tradition and who thinks , feels , and writes from his own im- mediate ...
... poet , above ordinary men , cultivates . Particularly is this true of the poet who writes in an open society that is relatively free from the taboos and rituals of tradition and who thinks , feels , and writes from his own im- mediate ...
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... poet would , in social intercourse , remain mute behind this gaze , leaving to the sensible man of affairs which ... poet's disturbance , is the other symbol : that of the fowl's " solitary way " which is also the poet's " long way that ...
... poet would , in social intercourse , remain mute behind this gaze , leaving to the sensible man of affairs which ... poet's disturbance , is the other symbol : that of the fowl's " solitary way " which is also the poet's " long way that ...
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