Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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... whole , unanimous in accepting Poe at a much higher valuation than has been placed upon him at home , where Lowell's touch - and - go reference in the " Fable for Critics " has too often been accepted as an authoritative and final ...
... whole , unanimous in accepting Poe at a much higher valuation than has been placed upon him at home , where Lowell's touch - and - go reference in the " Fable for Critics " has too often been accepted as an authoritative and final ...
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... whole . The severance between the writer and his surroundings , already noted , is constantly brought home to the reader by the subjects , the persons , and the landscapes which appear in Poe's work . Tragedy in Shakespeare's his ...
... whole . The severance between the writer and his surroundings , already noted , is constantly brought home to the reader by the subjects , the persons , and the landscapes which appear in Poe's work . Tragedy in Shakespeare's his ...
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... whole body of our literature , but Poe and Hawthorne made it absolutely untenable . Poe's dæmonic force , his passion for perfection of form , his ideality , and the sensitiveness of his temperament are all subtly combined in the ...
... whole body of our literature , but Poe and Hawthorne made it absolutely untenable . Poe's dæmonic force , his passion for perfection of form , his ideality , and the sensitiveness of his temperament are all subtly combined in the ...
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... whole country . Poe's very detachment in artistic interest from the world about him was a positive gain for the emancipa- tion of the imagination of the young country , so recently a province of the Old World . His criticism was almost ...
... whole country . Poe's very detachment in artistic interest from the world about him was a positive gain for the emancipa- tion of the imagination of the young country , so recently a province of the Old World . His criticism was almost ...
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... whole community ; for the invention of printing had brought books within the reach even of yeomen and of artisans . From the Mediterranean to the Frozen Sea , therefore , the public mind was everywhere in a ferment ; and nowhere was the ...
... whole community ; for the invention of printing had brought books within the reach even of yeomen and of artisans . From the Mediterranean to the Frozen Sea , therefore , the public mind was everywhere in a ferment ; and nowhere was the ...
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