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... poet is not a poet who is treating the whole subject matter of poetry in a religious spirit , but a poet who is dealing with a confined part of this subject matter ; who is leaving out what men consider their major passions , and ...
... poet is not a poet who is treating the whole subject matter of poetry in a religious spirit , but a poet who is dealing with a confined part of this subject matter ; who is leaving out what men consider their major passions , and ...
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... poet . But the difficulty of applying the term will arise with other poets ( such as Vaughan , Southwell , Crashaw , Hopkins in Eliot's list ) , who have written great poems , yet would by many critics be categorised as minor poets ...
... poet . But the difficulty of applying the term will arise with other poets ( such as Vaughan , Southwell , Crashaw , Hopkins in Eliot's list ) , who have written great poems , yet would by many critics be categorised as minor poets ...
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... poets give remarkably similar accounts of the 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 ...
... poets give remarkably similar accounts of the 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 ...
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