The Life of PoetryObserving that poetry is a natural part of our pastimes and rituals, Rukeyser opposes elitist attitudes and confronts Americans' fear of feeling. Multicultural and interdisciplinary, this volume makes an irrefutable case for the centrality of poetry in American life. |
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... tion " your eyes provide you . It is the way you look at the scene before you , and it is also the sequence in which you very likely " see " your dreams . Now films and visual sequences may be put together smoothly with all the links ...
... tion " your eyes provide you . It is the way you look at the scene before you , and it is also the sequence in which you very likely " see " your dreams . Now films and visual sequences may be put together smoothly with all the links ...
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... tion , massed in experience as dissociation , and in a selec- tive structure ( which is claimed ) as fantasy . There is disaster in this habit ; Spinoza taught this well , and Colling- wood brings these meanings home again . In the ...
... tion , massed in experience as dissociation , and in a selec- tive structure ( which is claimed ) as fantasy . There is disaster in this habit ; Spinoza taught this well , and Colling- wood brings these meanings home again . In the ...
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... tion at Yale - it could not possibly be Gibbs . Later he wrote to a scientist who had worked with him to say that he , Wilson , had looked into my origins , and that for me to be writing about Gibbs , my ancestry being what it is , was ...
... tion at Yale - it could not possibly be Gibbs . Later he wrote to a scientist who had worked with him to say that he , Wilson , had looked into my origins , and that for me to be writing about Gibbs , my ancestry being what it is , was ...
Contents
The Universe of Poetry A History of Images | 21 |
The Security of the Imagination Gesture | 27 |
Toward the Most Human Intensity within Form | 41 |
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