Criticism; the Foundations of Modern Literary JudgmentMark Schorer Harcourt, Brace, 1958 - 553 pages |
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Page 118
... experience which surpasses man's un- derstanding , and to which he is therefore in danger of succumbing . The value and the force of the experience are given by its enormity . It arises from timeless depths ; it is foreign and cold ...
... experience which surpasses man's un- derstanding , and to which he is therefore in danger of succumbing . The value and the force of the experience are given by its enormity . It arises from timeless depths ; it is foreign and cold ...
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... experience , and my own inspiration seems to me like the faintest flash of insight into the nature of reality beside that of other poets whom I can think of . How- ever , it is possible that I describe here a kind of experience which ...
... experience , and my own inspiration seems to me like the faintest flash of insight into the nature of reality beside that of other poets whom I can think of . How- ever , it is possible that I describe here a kind of experience which ...
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... experience , and what sort of stream of events the experience is . gaps A poem , let us say Wordsworth's Westminster Wordsworth's Westminster Bridge sonnet , is such an experience , it is the experience the right kind of reader has when ...
... experience , and what sort of stream of events the experience is . gaps A poem , let us say Wordsworth's Westminster Wordsworth's Westminster Bridge sonnet , is such an experience , it is the experience the right kind of reader has when ...
Contents
PLATO The Poet in the Republic | 1 |
LONGINUS On the Sublime | 10 |
THOMAS HOBBES Answer to Sir William Davenants | 25 |
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