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... meaning must be related to the context of ideas in which the poet lived and worked and that it cannot be ... meanings and symbols . This is true in a lesser degree also with respect to American work on older literature , though there the ...
... meaning must be related to the context of ideas in which the poet lived and worked and that it cannot be ... meanings and symbols . This is true in a lesser degree also with respect to American work on older literature , though there the ...
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... meaning or meanings of a work or a part of a work , and that it is often deemed to be the duty of a younger member of an English department who seeks promotion to produce something of this kind , to pull out as many explicatory plums ...
... meaning or meanings of a work or a part of a work , and that it is often deemed to be the duty of a younger member of an English department who seeks promotion to produce something of this kind , to pull out as many explicatory plums ...
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... meaning that a word carries depend on when the word was used ; and what might be seized upon by the critic as a strange or remarkable or unique usage might in fact have been quite commonplace in its day and not charged with any specific ...
... meaning that a word carries depend on when the word was used ; and what might be seized upon by the critic as a strange or remarkable or unique usage might in fact have been quite commonplace in its day and not charged with any specific ...
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