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... sense , does occur , but that it is an important feature of verse . To make out a broad - scale case for this claim might require much space and effort . Fortunately , we can do perhaps all that is necessary at the mo- ment if we work ...
... sense , does occur , but that it is an important feature of verse . To make out a broad - scale case for this claim might require much space and effort . Fortunately , we can do perhaps all that is necessary at the mo- ment if we work ...
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... sense and the grammatical form . . . ' the definition is still difficult to ac- cept . The " sense " of a line , I presume , is its meaning . But surely the mean- ing is carried on past the end of end - stopped lines too , for example ...
... sense and the grammatical form . . . ' the definition is still difficult to ac- cept . The " sense " of a line , I presume , is its meaning . But surely the mean- ing is carried on past the end of end - stopped lines too , for example ...
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... sense this is possible ; in what sense there can be such a thing as poetic truth , distinguish- able from and unexchangeable with any strictly logical truth . The possibility , in the sense here intended , has been denied by so ...
... sense this is possible ; in what sense there can be such a thing as poetic truth , distinguish- able from and unexchangeable with any strictly logical truth . The possibility , in the sense here intended , has been denied by so ...
Contents
Vowel and Consonant Patterns in Poetry 1953 David I Masson | 3 |
Some Parallels and Contrasts | 19 |
Some English Sonnets 1960 | 33 |
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