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Page 96
It is all very well to say that poetry is emotion remembered in tranquillity; but a
poet's emotion is specific, a poet's rather than a man's, and it is never quite
disinterested. That is why women with their instinctive common sense have so
often ...
It is all very well to say that poetry is emotion remembered in tranquillity; but a
poet's emotion is specific, a poet's rather than a man's, and it is never quite
disinterested. That is why women with their instinctive common sense have so
often ...
Page 298
I have tried to find out from the writers on aesthetics what it is in human nature
that makes it possible for us to get the emotion of beauty and what exactly this
emotion is. It is usual enough to talk of the aesthetic instinct: the term seems to
give it ...
I have tried to find out from the writers on aesthetics what it is in human nature
that makes it possible for us to get the emotion of beauty and what exactly this
emotion is. It is usual enough to talk of the aesthetic instinct: the term seems to
give it ...
Page 300
They are enriched by the emotion of all who have found solace and strength in
their loveliness. Far then from thinking the aesthetic emotion a specific, simple
affair, I think it is a very complicated one, which is made up of various, often ...
They are enriched by the emotion of all who have found solace and strength in
their loveliness. Far then from thinking the aesthetic emotion a specific, simple
affair, I think it is a very complicated one, which is made up of various, often ...
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| Title | The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1 Armed Services ed Armed Services editions Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Volume 5339 of Collection of British authors International Collector's Library Volume 60 of Mentor books Volume 5339 of Tauchnitz edition of British and American authors Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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