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Page 283
... whole world into his canvas . Seen there , that world becomes complete , clear , beautiful , and tragic . It is vivid and truthful in its detail , sublime in its march and in its harmony . This is not poetry where the parts are better ...
... whole world into his canvas . Seen there , that world becomes complete , clear , beautiful , and tragic . It is vivid and truthful in its detail , sublime in its march and in its harmony . This is not poetry where the parts are better ...
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... whole . And one of the chief objections to the type of criti- cism which Mr. Eliot brings to bear , is that it does not distinguish clearly between the story of Hamlet the individual and the story of the play as a whole . He objects to ...
... whole . And one of the chief objections to the type of criti- cism which Mr. Eliot brings to bear , is that it does not distinguish clearly between the story of Hamlet the individual and the story of the play as a whole . He objects to ...
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... whole machinery and system of Nature , and in reflecting within his own mind the whole intellectual order of things . Pain and evil cannot affect him , unless his understanding is imperfect , and unless he is affected by external causes ...
... whole machinery and system of Nature , and in reflecting within his own mind the whole intellectual order of things . Pain and evil cannot affect him , unless his understanding is imperfect , and unless he is affected by external causes ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
HOMER Odysseus Scar | 30 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
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