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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... 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 have so often found the love of poets ...
... 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 have so often found the love of poets ...
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... emotion of beauty and what exactly this emotion is . It is usual enough to talk of the ęsthetic instinct : the term seems to give it a place among the mainsprings of the human being , [ 298 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... emotion of beauty and what exactly this emotion is . It is usual enough to talk of the ęsthetic instinct : the term seems to give it a place among the mainsprings of the human being , [ 298 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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... emotion of all who have found solace and strength in their loveli- ness . Far then from thinking the ęsthetic emotion a specific , simple affair , I think it is a very complicated one , which is made up of various , often discordant ...
... emotion of all who have found solace and strength in their loveli- ness . Far then from thinking the ęsthetic emotion a specific , simple affair , I think it is a very complicated one , which is made up of various , often discordant ...
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