Literary Criticism; an Introductory ReaderLionel Trilling |
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... imitation of the abstract and perfect Idea of the bed , table , or jar , just as the circle we draw on the blackboard in a geometry lesson is but the imperfect representation or imitation of the Idea of the circle . For Plato the Idea ...
... imitation of the abstract and perfect Idea of the bed , table , or jar , just as the circle we draw on the blackboard in a geometry lesson is but the imperfect representation or imitation of the Idea of the circle . For Plato the Idea ...
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... imitation . Poetry in general seems to have sprung from two causes , each of them lying deep in our nature . First , the instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood , one difference between him and other animals being that ...
... imitation . Poetry in general seems to have sprung from two causes , each of them lying deep in our nature . First , the instinct of imitation is implanted in man from childhood , one difference between him and other animals being that ...
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... imitation of Homer : " We ought not to regard a good imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate , by forming himself on the invention and the work of another man ; for he enters into the lists like a ...
... imitation of Homer : " We ought not to regard a good imitation as a theft , but as a beautiful idea of him who undertakes to imitate , by forming himself on the invention and the work of another man ; for he enters into the lists like a ...
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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