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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Science of Poetry and the Philosophy of Language |
| Author | Hudson Maxim |
| Publisher | Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1910 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 21 Jul 2005 |
| Length | 294 pages |
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