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Page 217
... artist and artist . It is the difference between his own conception of a poet and that of his friend Dolben which the Poet Laureate refers to in words quoted above . For himself poetry was an art which I hoped to learn . . . I did not ...
... artist and artist . It is the difference between his own conception of a poet and that of his friend Dolben which the Poet Laureate refers to in words quoted above . For himself poetry was an art which I hoped to learn . . . I did not ...
Page 237
... artist in whom imagination gives new life to technique . " To do justice to Blake's earlier work , his illustrations ... artists , the first rebel against the Renaissance imitation of nature . Unfortunately his temperament is impatient ...
... artist in whom imagination gives new life to technique . " To do justice to Blake's earlier work , his illustrations ... artists , the first rebel against the Renaissance imitation of nature . Unfortunately his temperament is impatient ...
Page 266
... artist is to give expression to that consciousness , hence the solidity of his work and hence too its definiteness , and in the hands of great artists its beauty . Literature at such a period is not personal — at least in quite the same ...
... artist is to give expression to that consciousness , hence the solidity of his work and hence too its definiteness , and in the hands of great artists its beauty . Literature at such a period is not personal — at least in quite the same ...
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