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... experience included in the poetry . A major poet can encompass by his art so wide a range of subject - matter that it touches all the experience of his readers in some degree , and all his utterances may imply that breadth of vision ...
... experience included in the poetry . A major poet can encompass by his art so wide a range of subject - matter that it touches all the experience of his readers in some degree , and all his utterances may imply that breadth of vision ...
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... experience . The poem is the ex- perience : it creates the experience for the poet just as much as for his first audience . The Dante of the Inferno was not a man who had been through Hell , but a man who went into Hell a - making ...
... experience . The poem is the ex- perience : it creates the experience for the poet just as much as for his first audience . The Dante of the Inferno was not a man who had been through Hell , but a man who went into Hell a - making ...
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... experience of a revival of youthful sensuous feeling . The compelling nature for the poet of the thought of lost ... experiences in the summers of the mid - 1930's . Helen Gardner , in her book on the making of the Quartets , has given ...
... experience of a revival of youthful sensuous feeling . The compelling nature for the poet of the thought of lost ... experiences in the summers of the mid - 1930's . Helen Gardner , in her book on the making of the Quartets , has given ...
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