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Page 105
... readers are " succeeding . " I'll wager that , in by far the great majority of cases , such readers make no serious attempt to apply the book's recipes . The lure of the book resides in the fact that the reader , while reading it , is ...
... readers are " succeeding . " I'll wager that , in by far the great majority of cases , such readers make no serious attempt to apply the book's recipes . The lure of the book resides in the fact that the reader , while reading it , is ...
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... reader whose speed of breathing and reading corresponds with the speed to which the author's page is accommodated , for the same reason they might give displeasure to a reader in whom this correspondence was lacking . 35. Compensatory ...
... reader whose speed of breathing and reading corresponds with the speed to which the author's page is accommodated , for the same reason they might give displeasure to a reader in whom this correspondence was lacking . 35. Compensatory ...
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... reader is obviously an indeterminate and fluctuant mixture of these two extremes . An art might be said to approach “ perfec- tion " in proportion as its appeal is made to the second kind of reader - but in all purity he could not ...
... reader is obviously an indeterminate and fluctuant mixture of these two extremes . An art might be said to approach “ perfec- tion " in proportion as its appeal is made to the second kind of reader - but in all purity he could not ...
Contents
The Excursion | 17 |
The Poetic Process | 34 |
From Preface to CounterStatement first edition | 50 |
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