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... poetic process . The Welsh scholar - poet Saunders Lewis puts it very neatly : The matter of poetry is not an unwritten poem in the poet's mind . It is not a completed experience for which the poet has to find adequate symbol . A poem ...
... poetic process . The Welsh scholar - poet Saunders Lewis puts it very neatly : The matter of poetry is not an unwritten poem in the poet's mind . It is not a completed experience for which the poet has to find adequate symbol . A poem ...
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... poem , with its alternations of lyric and meditative metres , placed at the end of the poet's Collected Poems of ... poem taken up and developed . For instance , a passage from an early and unpublished poem , The Death of St Narcissus ...
... poem , with its alternations of lyric and meditative metres , placed at the end of the poet's Collected Poems of ... poem taken up and developed . For instance , a passage from an early and unpublished poem , The Death of St Narcissus ...
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... poem , which you can trace in Helen Gardner's book , but there is enough here to illustrate the way in which one work gives rise to another , like the whorls of a primula . Thus Burnt Norton grew out of the work which im- mediately ...
... poem , which you can trace in Helen Gardner's book , but there is enough here to illustrate the way in which one work gives rise to another , like the whorls of a primula . Thus Burnt Norton grew out of the work which im- mediately ...
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