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... complete ; the standards by which life and art are judged the same . If we may use a metaphor , in the Greek view art is the consciousness of life . Poetry is more philosophic and more highly serious than history , just as the mind of a ...
... complete ; the standards by which life and art are judged the same . If we may use a metaphor , in the Greek view art is the consciousness of life . Poetry is more philosophic and more highly serious than history , just as the mind of a ...
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... complete , and we can distinguish the degree . But even when we feel that the identifi- cation is complete — as it is , at this period , with the Bastard , with Hotspur , with Falstaff , with Mercutio - we cannot say this was ...
... complete , and we can distinguish the degree . But even when we feel that the identifi- cation is complete — as it is , at this period , with the Bastard , with Hotspur , with Falstaff , with Mercutio - we cannot say this was ...
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... complete repudiation of the Idea of Progress . To him the idea of automatic progress is a moral insanity , a fearful corporate illusion , which could only be entertained by men who had forgotten the true nature of man , and had never ...
... complete repudiation of the Idea of Progress . To him the idea of automatic progress is a moral insanity , a fearful corporate illusion , which could only be entertained by men who had forgotten the true nature of man , and had never ...
Contents
THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM | 1 |
POETRY AND PROSE ΙΟ | 10 |
STENDHAL | 25 |
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