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The two essays which follow , on Lucretius ' and on Goethe's 2 Faust , were first published in a volume called Three Philosophical Poets ( 1910 ) . ( The third poet was Dante . ) The title is important , for it was because his three ...
The two essays which follow , on Lucretius ' and on Goethe's 2 Faust , were first published in a volume called Three Philosophical Poets ( 1910 ) . ( The third poet was Dante . ) The title is important , for it was because his three ...
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These antecedents , however , do not lie in the poet himself . If they did , we should not be able to trace them , since we know nothing , or next to nothing , about Lucretius the man . In a chronicon , compiled by St. Jerome largely ...
These antecedents , however , do not lie in the poet himself . If they did , we should not be able to trace them , since we know nothing , or next to nothing , about Lucretius the man . In a chronicon , compiled by St. Jerome largely ...
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There remains the genius of the poet himself . The greatest thing about this genius is its power of losing itself in its object , its impersonality . We seem to be reading not the poetry of a poet about things , but the poetry of things ...
There remains the genius of the poet himself . The greatest thing about this genius is its power of losing itself in its object , its impersonality . We seem to be reading not the poetry of a poet about things , but the poetry of things ...
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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