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... kind . Just as we should not define a chair as wood which has such and such charac- teristics - for a chair is not a kind of wood but furniture - so we ought not to define poetry as a kind of language . The chair is not wood but wooden ...
... kind . Just as we should not define a chair as wood which has such and such charac- teristics - for a chair is not a kind of wood but furniture - so we ought not to define poetry as a kind of language . The chair is not wood but wooden ...
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... kind of contrived interpreta- tion . In the same way , manipulation of different systems of phono- logical analysis could doubtless be made to produce confirmation of one's analysis of a poem's meaning . Indeed , it is difficult to see ...
... kind of contrived interpreta- tion . In the same way , manipulation of different systems of phono- logical analysis could doubtless be made to produce confirmation of one's analysis of a poem's meaning . Indeed , it is difficult to see ...
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... kind , but the definition of appropriateness here presents some difficulties . It must mean more than ' sense of a kind ' , for readers will quite rarely produce absolute nonsense as the interpretation of earlier literature , and ...
... kind , but the definition of appropriateness here presents some difficulties . It must mean more than ' sense of a kind ' , for readers will quite rarely produce absolute nonsense as the interpretation of earlier literature , and ...
Contents
THE NEW CRITICISM AND THE LAN | 29 |
BY ALGEBRA TO AUGUSTANISM | 53 |
TAKING A POEM TO PIECES | 68 |
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