American Literature Survey: The American romantics, 1800-1860Milton R. Stern, Seymour L. Gross Viking Press, 1968 - Fiction |
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... poem . This latter , if truly fulfilling the demands of the poetic sentiment , induces an exaltation of the soul which cannot be long sustained . All high excitements are necessarily transient . Thus a long poem is a paradox . And ...
... poem . This latter , if truly fulfilling the demands of the poetic sentiment , induces an exaltation of the soul which cannot be long sustained . All high excitements are necessarily transient . Thus a long poem is a paradox . And ...
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... poem . I hold that a long poem does not exist . I main- tain that the phrase , " a long poem , " is simply a flat con- tradiction in terms . I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites , by ...
... poem . I hold that a long poem does not exist . I main- tain that the phrase , " a long poem , " is simply a flat con- tradiction in terms . I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites , by ...
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... poem - this poem per se , this poem which is a poem and nothing more this poem written solely for the poem's sake . With as deep a reverence for the True as ever inspired the bosom of man , I would nevertheless limit , in some measure ...
... poem - this poem per se , this poem which is a poem and nothing more this poem written solely for the poem's sake . With as deep a reverence for the True as ever inspired the bosom of man , I would nevertheless limit , in some measure ...
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