The Quarterly Review, Volumes 289-290John Murray, 1951 |
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Page 160
... poetry has failed to fulfil the great function which it performed in former generations . Gosse once remarked that there was a growing tendency in certain circles to regard poetry as a kind of esoteric art of which the secret was ...
... poetry has failed to fulfil the great function which it performed in former generations . Gosse once remarked that there was a growing tendency in certain circles to regard poetry as a kind of esoteric art of which the secret was ...
Page 168
... poetry , giving us a sense of the abiding behind the transient . • This does not mean that only beautiful things can form the subject matter of poetry . Poetic drama , of course , cannot at all times give us the ' pure poetry ' of the ...
... poetry , giving us a sense of the abiding behind the transient . • This does not mean that only beautiful things can form the subject matter of poetry . Poetic drama , of course , cannot at all times give us the ' pure poetry ' of the ...
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Stic a introduction to the study of China's greatest poet . Li Po's life was one of outward failure , since he drifted here and there following no career but that of wine - bibber and poet . Yet he left behind much fine and imaginative ...
Stic a introduction to the study of China's greatest poet . Li Po's life was one of outward failure , since he drifted here and there following no career but that of wine - bibber and poet . Yet he left behind much fine and imaginative ...
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JANUARY 1951 | 1 |
The Music of Poetry | 2 |
Gibraltar and its Problems | 3 |
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