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... ordinary about his thinking and his imaginative faculties . He was a poet , and the kind of poet who could not help seeing things differently , awkward though it might be in an age which valued conformity . Thus there were strains . One ...
... ordinary about his thinking and his imaginative faculties . He was a poet , and the kind of poet who could not help seeing things differently , awkward though it might be in an age which valued conformity . Thus there were strains . One ...
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... ordinary people , he will produce fairly ordinary poetry . A number of examples of the critical thinking which supports the belief that a conformity in poetic expression is either necessary or inevitable appear in Professor Suther ...
... ordinary people , he will produce fairly ordinary poetry . A number of examples of the critical thinking which supports the belief that a conformity in poetic expression is either necessary or inevitable appear in Professor Suther ...
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... ordinary valuations and judge- ments people try to form and sustain concerning the everyday world in which they must live . While literature as an art form may bear critically on the world , it is quite another matter to allow the ...
... ordinary valuations and judge- ments people try to form and sustain concerning the everyday world in which they must live . While literature as an art form may bear critically on the world , it is quite another matter to allow the ...
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An Essay on Man | 175 |
The Dunciad | 198 |
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