The Mind and Art of Jonathan SwiftOxford University Press, 1936 - 398 pages |
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Page 62
... imagination be- neath a rigorously presiding reason . Swift , it is true , re- garded the imagination with the same hostility that he did the passions , but in this he displayed a far more austere doctrine than did his representative ...
... imagination be- neath a rigorously presiding reason . Swift , it is true , re- garded the imagination with the same hostility that he did the passions , but in this he displayed a far more austere doctrine than did his representative ...
Page 63
... imagination with reason , addressed the gen- eral sense of mankind . Mr. T. S. Eliot has bidden us seek in their poetry for the result of imagination . Unlike imagi- nation in romantic poetry , which speaks directly to us , the imaginative ...
... imagination with reason , addressed the gen- eral sense of mankind . Mr. T. S. Eliot has bidden us seek in their poetry for the result of imagination . Unlike imagi- nation in romantic poetry , which speaks directly to us , the imaginative ...
Page 64
... imagination with the rational faculty . Only the extremist like Swift would shrivel up the imagination . It is in The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit ( ptd . 1704 with A Tale of a Tub ) and A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet ( 1720 ...
... imagination with the rational faculty . Only the extremist like Swift would shrivel up the imagination . It is in The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit ( ptd . 1704 with A Tale of a Tub ) and A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet ( 1720 ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
CONTROLLING IDEAS | 49 |
The Battle of the Books AND A Tale of a Tub | 75 |
Copyright | |
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