Oliver GoldsmithH. Holt, 1935 - 326 pages |
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Page 130
... poet - though a poet of an age which renounced all in poetry that was lyrical . Nevertheless it is a poet , a philosophic poet , who sets out the function of poetry in general culture : Those who behold the phenomena of nature , and ...
... poet - though a poet of an age which renounced all in poetry that was lyrical . Nevertheless it is a poet , a philosophic poet , who sets out the function of poetry in general culture : Those who behold the phenomena of nature , and ...
Page 151
... poet who at first did not write poetry because prose paid better ? I think not . He was a poet , but of a limited and specialized kind whose excellence does not develop early . Nothing could have stopped Wordsworth and Shelley from writing ...
... poet who at first did not write poetry because prose paid better ? I think not . He was a poet , but of a limited and specialized kind whose excellence does not develop early . Nothing could have stopped Wordsworth and Shelley from writing ...
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... poetry , he was writing it then . Did he ever write poetry ? I must cite the best authority known to me , Professor Housman's discourse on the " Name and Nature of Poetry . " " I think , " he says , " that to trans- fuse emotion - not ...
... poetry , he was writing it then . Did he ever write poetry ? I must cite the best authority known to me , Professor Housman's discourse on the " Name and Nature of Poetry . " " I think , " he says , " that to trans- fuse emotion - not ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE SCHOOLBOY I | 1 |
THE COLLEGIAN | 20 |
IN SEARCH OF A PROFESSION | 40 |
Copyright | |
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