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... poetry . What , we ask , is poetry ? When so excellent a poet as A. E. Housman writes about poetry it is just that we should pay attention to what he has to say . And any lover of poetry who has not read that precious little book , The ...
... poetry . What , we ask , is poetry ? When so excellent a poet as A. E. Housman writes about poetry it is just that we should pay attention to what he has to say . And any lover of poetry who has not read that precious little book , The ...
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Julius Valdemar Moldenhawer. been enjoying has not been poetry at all . Obviously , there will be nothing left which we can call bad poetry , and that is a pity . Since " bad poetry " is precisely the way to describe that famous tooth ...
Julius Valdemar Moldenhawer. been enjoying has not been poetry at all . Obviously , there will be nothing left which we can call bad poetry , and that is a pity . Since " bad poetry " is precisely the way to describe that famous tooth ...
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... Poetry is to bring to us in the hours of frustration and dimness the confi- dence that all these things do not ... poetry ! And the grand miracle of it is in the fact that the poetry does not need to bear the particular message the soul ...
... Poetry is to bring to us in the hours of frustration and dimness the confi- dence that all these things do not ... poetry ! And the grand miracle of it is in the fact that the poetry does not need to bear the particular message the soul ...
Contents
POETRY AND LIFE | 7 |
SHAKESPEARES CREED | 26 |
THE LINCOLN OF THE Second INAUGURAL | 41 |
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