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Bowles has claimed that to be a great descriptive poet one must be first an accurate describer of external nature ; Byron replies that the result of the theory is usually a forgetting of the forest in the trees , an overemphasis of the ...
Bowles has claimed that to be a great descriptive poet one must be first an accurate describer of external nature ; Byron replies that the result of the theory is usually a forgetting of the forest in the trees , an overemphasis of the ...
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but heighten the poetry of nature ; the true artist culls nature and paints her idealized ; the sculptor and the painter must surpass their model ; poetry is written for men and about men , nature is only a background and an environment ...
but heighten the poetry of nature ; the true artist culls nature and paints her idealized ; the sculptor and the painter must surpass their model ; poetry is written for men and about men , nature is only a background and an environment ...
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The feeling for nature may have been affected by Wordsworth , and the idealism by Shelley , but they are essentially Byron . There is not , in the total effect , the loss of individuality in the pantheistic contemplation of nature that ...
The feeling for nature may have been affected by Wordsworth , and the idealism by Shelley , but they are essentially Byron . There is not , in the total effect , the loss of individuality in the pantheistic contemplation of nature that ...
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| Title | Byron: Romantic Paradox |
| Author | William Jonathan Calvert |
| Edition | reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Russell & Russell, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 235 pages |
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