Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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Page 384
Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler. poet of the source of landscape , a poet of matter . A poet of landscape might try to suggest , by well - chosen words , the sensations of light , move- ment , and form which nature arouses ...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler. poet of the source of landscape , a poet of matter . A poet of landscape might try to suggest , by well - chosen words , the sensations of light , move- ment , and form which nature arouses ...
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... poet of genesis , evolution , and natural force in its myriad manifestations . Only a part of the cosmic process engages his interest , or touches his soul - the strengthening or chastening of human purposes by the influences of land ...
... poet of genesis , evolution , and natural force in its myriad manifestations . Only a part of the cosmic process engages his interest , or touches his soul - the strengthening or chastening of human purposes by the influences of land ...
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... 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 human life ...
... 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 human life ...
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