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... experience ? It says , as I understand it , these things . First , this experience is an end in itself , is worth having on its own account , has an intrinsic value . Next , its poetic value is this intrinsic worth alone . Poetry may ...
... experience ? It says , as I understand it , these things . First , this experience is an end in itself , is worth having on its own account , has an intrinsic value . Next , its poetic value is this intrinsic worth alone . Poetry may ...
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... experience them together , side by side ; but you experience the one in the other . And in like manner , when you are really reading Hamlet , the action and the characters are not something which you conceive apart from the words ; you ...
... experience them together , side by side ; but you experience the one in the other . And in like manner , when you are really reading Hamlet , the action and the characters are not something which you conceive apart from the words ; you ...
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... experience ; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic , irregular , fragmentary . The latter falls in love , or reads Spinoza , 12 and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other , or with the noise of the typewriter or the ...
... experience ; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic , irregular , fragmentary . The latter falls in love , or reads Spinoza , 12 and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other , or with the noise of the typewriter or the ...
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action admiration Aeschylus aesthetic appears Aristotle artist Balzac beauty become better Byron called century character Comedy conception consciousness culture D. H. Lawrence dramatic effect Eliot emotion English epic Epic poetry essay Euripides existence experience expression F. R. Leavis fact feeling fiction French genius give Greek Homer human I. A. Richards ideas Iliad images imagination imitation intellectual interpretation judgment kind King Lear language less literary criticism literature Matthew Arnold means metaphor mind modern moral myth nature never novel object Odysseus Paradise Lost passions perhaps person philosophical Plato play pleasure plot poem poet poet's poetic poetry present produced prose reader reality reason relation sense Shakespeare social Sophocles soul speak spirit story style T. S. Eliot theory things thought tion tragedy true truth University verse whole words Wordsworth writing