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... poet as maker rivals the gods a dangerous function , George Steiner has called it . ' His song is builder of cities ; his words have that power which , above all ... poet's art ' . So , he writes , ' Coleridge like Goethe felt driven to 10.
... poet as maker rivals the gods a dangerous function , George Steiner has called it . ' His song is builder of cities ; his words have that power which , above all ... poet's art ' . So , he writes , ' Coleridge like Goethe felt driven to 10.
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... 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 is not the expression of anything ...
... 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 is not the expression of anything ...
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... poet to write well . As the poet James Fenton has said , ' Form does not come from an academic prescription . It issues from the exertion of the poet's free will . ' As to scholars , they often seem more concerned to prove their ...
... poet to write well . As the poet James Fenton has said , ' Form does not come from an academic prescription . It issues from the exertion of the poet's free will . ' As to scholars , they often seem more concerned to prove their ...
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