Thoth, Volume 6Graduate students of the English Department, Syracuse University, 1965 - American literature |
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... literature , " it is only the wild that attracts us . Dulness is but another name for tameness . " Literary genius is " a light which makes the darkness visible , like the lightning's flash , which perchance shatters the temple of ...
... literature , " it is only the wild that attracts us . Dulness is but another name for tameness . " Literary genius is " a light which makes the darkness visible , like the lightning's flash , which perchance shatters the temple of ...
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... literature , retracing the steps of the race ; we go westward as into the future , with a spirit of enterprise and adventure . ( " Walking , ” p . 177 ) Thoreau looks for his West in literature , and feels that it will become the ...
... literature , retracing the steps of the race ; we go westward as into the future , with a spirit of enterprise and adventure . ( " Walking , ” p . 177 ) Thoreau looks for his West in literature , and feels that it will become the ...
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... literature has deeply dyed my brain its own color . This literary coloring is a protective one - like the brown of the rabbit or the checks of the quail - making it impossible for me to tell where literature ends and I begin . " ( p ...
... literature has deeply dyed my brain its own color . This literary coloring is a protective one - like the brown of the rabbit or the checks of the quail - making it impossible for me to tell where literature ends and I begin . " ( p ...
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Drydens Zimri and Chaucers | 3 |
Thomas Trahernes The Estate Donald M Korte | 13 |
The AntiSelf | 20 |
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