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A poet of landscape might try to suggest , by well - chosen words , the sensations of light , movement , and form which ... and warned poets of : I mean the unfitness of language to render what is spatial and material ; its fitness to ...
A poet of landscape might try to suggest , by well - chosen words , the sensations of light , movement , and form which ... and warned poets of : I mean the unfitness of language to render what is spatial and material ; its fitness to ...
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whom the title of poet of nature might perhaps be claimed . To him the landscape is an influence . What he renders , beyond such pictorial touches as language is capable of , is the moral inspiration which the scene brings to him .
whom the title of poet of nature might perhaps be claimed . To him the landscape is an influence . What he renders , beyond such pictorial touches as language is capable of , is the moral inspiration which the scene brings to him .
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Imagine a poet who , to the freedom and simplicity of Homer , should have added the more reverent idealism of a later age ; and what an inexhaustible fund of poetry might he not have found in this conception of the immortals leading a ...
Imagine a poet who , to the freedom and simplicity of Homer , should have added the more reverent idealism of a later age ; and what an inexhaustible fund of poetry might he not have found in this conception of the immortals leading a ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
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WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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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 | 580 pages |
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