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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... mind , just as the musician can depend upon his audience's familiarity with the diatonic scale ( which may be artificial , but it has been around so long that in our civilization it sounds like nature ) . Donne needn't remind us too ...
... mind , just as the musician can depend upon his audience's familiarity with the diatonic scale ( which may be artificial , but it has been around so long that in our civilization it sounds like nature ) . Donne needn't remind us too ...
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... mind but a mind which has read books about myths ( and other things ) . A minimal experience ( not included , though I wish he had put it in ! ) in which the poet is sitting contemplating the Kilroy inscrip- tion , is expanded almost ...
... mind but a mind which has read books about myths ( and other things ) . A minimal experience ( not included , though I wish he had put it in ! ) in which the poet is sitting contemplating the Kilroy inscrip- tion , is expanded almost ...
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... mind is whole your poem will somehow be whole , though you ( like Donne ) get geometric compasses , gold foil , cosmology , geology and religion side by side . Let your mind range widely and digest everything . Digestion is the opposite ...
... mind is whole your poem will somehow be whole , though you ( like Donne ) get geometric compasses , gold foil , cosmology , geology and religion side by side . Let your mind range widely and digest everything . Digestion is the opposite ...
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