American Heritage: An Anthology and Interpertive Survey of Our Literature, Volume 2Leon Howard Heath, 1955 - American literature |
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... SENSE Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye ; Much sense the starkest madness . ' Tis the majority In this , as all , prevails . Assent , and you are sane ; Demur , you're straightway dangerous , And handled with a chain ...
... SENSE Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye ; Much sense the starkest madness . ' Tis the majority In this , as all , prevails . Assent , and you are sane ; Demur , you're straightway dangerous , And handled with a chain ...
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... sense of world chaos to a sense of order which has been characteristic of the work- as a whole - of a small but important group of American poets . The greatest poet of our time , he himself has spanned , if not contained , their entire ...
... sense of world chaos to a sense of order which has been characteristic of the work- as a whole - of a small but important group of American poets . The greatest poet of our time , he himself has spanned , if not contained , their entire ...
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... sense , which we may call nearly indis- pensable to any one who would continue to be a poet beyond his twenty - fifth year ; and the histori- cal sense involves a perception , not only of the pastness of the past , but of its presence ...
... sense , which we may call nearly indis- pensable to any one who would continue to be a poet beyond his twenty - fifth year ; and the histori- cal sense involves a perception , not only of the pastness of the past , but of its presence ...
Contents
The New England Brahmins | 3 |
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL | 6 |
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW | 9 |
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