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8 the triumphant ending of a quest , but as the completion of meaning of a beloved poem ; and necessarily , the poem entered into the meaning of the event . So , outward circumstance and inward state – a state prepared for by a myriad ...
8 the triumphant ending of a quest , but as the completion of meaning of a beloved poem ; and necessarily , the poem entered into the meaning of the event . So , outward circumstance and inward state – a state prepared for by a myriad ...
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In speaking only of Shakespeare's , or any poet's , meanings , I have been guilty of some distortion , for we hear the meaning through the poetry and by means of it , not apart from it . Our listening is not merely metaphorical ...
In speaking only of Shakespeare's , or any poet's , meanings , I have been guilty of some distortion , for we hear the meaning through the poetry and by means of it , not apart from it . Our listening is not merely metaphorical ...
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The meaning implied in the painting by the compositional treatment of this particular episode is therefore complex , perhaps ambiguous , but hardly destructive . The primary focus on the acted - out parable puts the emphasis on the ...
The meaning implied in the painting by the compositional treatment of this particular episode is therefore complex , perhaps ambiguous , but hardly destructive . The primary focus on the acted - out parable puts the emphasis on the ...
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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