The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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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 ...
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 ...
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I have tried to find out from the writers on æsthetics 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 ästhetic instinct : the ...
I have tried to find out from the writers on æsthetics 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 ästhetic instinct : the ...
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They are enriched by the emotion of all who have found solace and strength in their loveliness . Far then from thinking the æsthetic emotion a specific , simple affair , I think it is a very complicated one , which is made up of various ...
They are enriched by the emotion of all who have found solace and strength in their loveliness . Far then from thinking the æsthetic emotion a specific , simple affair , I think it is a very complicated one , which is made up of various ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Arno Press, 1977 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 18 May 2018 |
| ISBN | 0405078307, 9780405078309 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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