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... particular metre or time has a perfectly definite and particular effect upon the emotional temper of the reader or hearer . So definite is the effect that the choice of an unsuitable metre for a poem of a particular type almost ...
... particular metre or time has a perfectly definite and particular effect upon the emotional temper of the reader or hearer . So definite is the effect that the choice of an unsuitable metre for a poem of a particular type almost ...
Page 132
... particular story at all for dramatic treatment , but if you select it that is the only way in which it can be made great . If you insist both upon selecting that story and also upon observing the unities you doom yourself to failure ...
... particular story at all for dramatic treatment , but if you select it that is the only way in which it can be made great . If you insist both upon selecting that story and also upon observing the unities you doom yourself to failure ...
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... particular poet does not always write in the same particular way , contrast Keats ' ' To Autumn ' with any other of his Odes . In form it is almost identical , but that is apt to prevent us from seeing that surely a very different ...
... particular poet does not always write in the same particular way , contrast Keats ' ' To Autumn ' with any other of his Odes . In form it is almost identical , but that is apt to prevent us from seeing that surely a very different ...
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