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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... idea , observation , emotion or cleverness , with- out a sense of language or knowledge of technique , without even ... ideas and the varieties of poetic materials . I have no intention of being elementary . I assume my readers have ...
... idea , observation , emotion or cleverness , with- out a sense of language or knowledge of technique , without even ... ideas and the varieties of poetic materials . I have no intention of being elementary . I assume my readers have ...
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... Idea . Here the texture was logic , but in modern poets that very tex- ture may become innovation piled on ... ideas — of valves with attention , of attention with stone . The passive waiting , the blank inalterable shutting , the ...
... Idea . Here the texture was logic , but in modern poets that very tex- ture may become innovation piled on ... ideas — of valves with attention , of attention with stone . The passive waiting , the blank inalterable shutting , the ...
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... idea which can make a poem or , having had such an idea , have not brought it off . Nothing perhaps distinguished the poem from thousands of others which have crossed the editor's desk . It is difficult for a poet working in the ...
... idea which can make a poem or , having had such an idea , have not brought it off . Nothing perhaps distinguished the poem from thousands of others which have crossed the editor's desk . It is difficult for a poet working in the ...
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