The Poet and the PoemA discussion of the poet's inherent attitudes, the more technical matters of verse writing, and the application of principles to actual practice. |
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... culture . " We may regard it as an inadequate conscience these days ; but , consider , he is claiming for literature the function that banks have here . I make no judgment about the quality of the poetry Russians find so exciting . The ...
... culture . " We may regard it as an inadequate conscience these days ; but , consider , he is claiming for literature the function that banks have here . I make no judgment about the quality of the poetry Russians find so exciting . The ...
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... culture poetry simply is not an important way of appre- hending experience and conveying thought , and there is ... cultural fact ; poets here , mostly by choice , are far out . Literature is way , way out . While the cultures of ...
... culture poetry simply is not an important way of appre- hending experience and conveying thought , and there is ... cultural fact ; poets here , mostly by choice , are far out . Literature is way , way out . While the cultures of ...
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... culture , like our towns , sprawls in a slap - dash , wasteful individ- ualism across the wide ranges of the human spirit . Except , I must keep excepting , for Frost . God knows he's Yankee enough , but he seems to have escaped that ...
... culture , like our towns , sprawls in a slap - dash , wasteful individ- ualism across the wide ranges of the human spirit . Except , I must keep excepting , for Frost . God knows he's Yankee enough , but he seems to have escaped that ...
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