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... fact , in the supposed fact ; it has attached its emotion to the fact , and now the fact is failing it . But for poetry the idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion , of divine illusion . Poetry attaches its emotion to the ...
... fact , in the supposed fact ; it has attached its emotion to the fact , and now the fact is failing it . But for poetry the idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion , of divine illusion . Poetry attaches its emotion to the ...
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... fact , but his peculiar sense of fact , whether past or present . Dismissing then , under sanction of Wordsworth , that harsher opposition of poetry to prose , as savouring in fact of the arbitrary psychology of the last century , and ...
... fact , but his peculiar sense of fact , whether past or present . Dismissing then , under sanction of Wordsworth , that harsher opposition of poetry to prose , as savouring in fact of the arbitrary psychology of the last century , and ...
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... facts or groups of facts , becomes a pleading - a theorem no longer , but essentially an appeal to the reader to catch the writer's spirit , to think with him , if one can or will - an expression no longer of fact but of his sense of it ...
... facts or groups of facts , becomes a pleading - a theorem no longer , but essentially an appeal to the reader to catch the writer's spirit , to think with him , if one can or will - an expression no longer of fact but of his sense of it ...
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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 metre 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