The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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... poetry , and the drama have received much more justice . Right educa- tion will no doubt continue unto the end of time to in- volve a tangle of problems , and the teaching of English is not the least of them , but there can be no doubt ...
... poetry , and the drama have received much more justice . Right educa- tion will no doubt continue unto the end of time to in- volve a tangle of problems , and the teaching of English is not the least of them , but there can be no doubt ...
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... poetry and to the personal essay in prose , it may be interpreted to mean not only this perfection of kind but also ... poet possess the gift of song ; the essay requires that the author have attained perfection of style . The essay is a ...
... poetry and to the personal essay in prose , it may be interpreted to mean not only this perfection of kind but also ... poet possess the gift of song ; the essay requires that the author have attained perfection of style . The essay is a ...
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... poetry , it has in common with its sister art rhythm and harmony of phrasing . The artist , whether in prose or poetry , has but the material common to both out of which to fashion the child of his brain - thought for the soul and words ...
... poetry , it has in common with its sister art rhythm and harmony of phrasing . The artist , whether in prose or poetry , has but the material common to both out of which to fashion the child of his brain - thought for the soul and words ...
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... poetry appeals primarily to the emotions and prose to the understanding our comparison or contrast be- tween the matter of prose and that of poetry must necessarily end . But the externals , the technique of these two arts , give ...
... poetry appeals primarily to the emotions and prose to the understanding our comparison or contrast be- tween the matter of prose and that of poetry must necessarily end . But the externals , the technique of these two arts , give ...
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... poetry in the epic stage is less subjective than poetry in the later and lyric stage . Most objective essays are scientific and didactic . The purely scientific treatise , which concerns itself solely with the exposition of scientific ...
... poetry in the epic stage is less subjective than poetry in the later and lyric stage . Most objective essays are scientific and didactic . The purely scientific treatise , which concerns itself solely with the exposition of scientific ...
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