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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... fact . Much more than the ability to distinguish sense from nonsense , to know fact when it presents itself , a proper sense of fact causes one to love the actual , to accumulate details in every corner of the attic of his mind , very ...
... fact . Much more than the ability to distinguish sense from nonsense , to know fact when it presents itself , a proper sense of fact causes one to love the actual , to accumulate details in every corner of the attic of his mind , very ...
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... fact , she let him go . But although we cling , now , to fact with neurotic desperation , no poet ever wrote who did not relish the still moments of ex- perience , the snowy woods , for their own sake . When a reader objects that poetry ...
... fact , she let him go . But although we cling , now , to fact with neurotic desperation , no poet ever wrote who did not relish the still moments of ex- perience , the snowy woods , for their own sake . When a reader objects that poetry ...
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... fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows . My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make . After the generalizations of the first quoted line the poem pulls in quickly , back to fact , the swale and its minutely - described ( and ...
... fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows . My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make . After the generalizations of the first quoted line the poem pulls in quickly , back to fact , the swale and its minutely - described ( and ...
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