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I see , for example , that there is something called “ The Crisis in Poetry ” . The crisis , I understand , does not arise from the fact that current poetry is bad , but from the fact that it is not read . Grand committees are being ...
I see , for example , that there is something called “ The Crisis in Poetry ” . The crisis , I understand , does not arise from the fact that current poetry is bad , but from the fact that it is not read . Grand committees are being ...
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Stephen Phillips might still write of Paolo and Francesca in poetic drama ; Kipling was by no means exhausted ; but poetry and Imperialism went out as the Liberals swept to victory in 1906 , and in their place came Utopias , social ...
Stephen Phillips might still write of Paolo and Francesca in poetic drama ; Kipling was by no means exhausted ; but poetry and Imperialism went out as the Liberals swept to victory in 1906 , and in their place came Utopias , social ...
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Harriette Wilson , the courtesan , imagined " the warm pressure of your lips to mine ... wild and eager as your poetry " . There is no persecution here . The persecution came from within . It came from Byron's morbid sense of sin ...
Harriette Wilson , the courtesan , imagined " the warm pressure of your lips to mine ... wild and eager as your poetry " . There is no persecution here . The persecution came from within . It came from Byron's morbid sense of sin ...
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WHY READ THE CLASSICS? Page | 9 |
DICKENS AND THACKERAY AT CHRISTMAS | 15 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 21 |
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