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Page 68
... emotion remembered in tran- quility ; 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 tran- quility ; 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 ...
Page 96
... emotion rather than by rea- soning . They demand action rather than debate . ( By action of course I do not mean merely physical action : from the standpoint of the theatre a character who says , I have a headache , performs an action ...
... emotion rather than by rea- soning . They demand action rather than debate . ( By action of course I do not mean merely physical action : from the standpoint of the theatre a character who says , I have a headache , performs an action ...
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... emotion as the disinterested satisfaction in balance and composition . What exactly is one's reaction to a great work of art ?. What does one feel when for instance one looks at Titian's Entombment in the Louvre or listens to the ...
... emotion as the disinterested satisfaction in balance and composition . What exactly is one's reaction to a great work of art ?. What does one feel when for instance one looks at Titian's Entombment in the Louvre or listens to the ...
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