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Why Write Poetry?: Modern Poets Defending Their Art - Page 34
by Jeannine Johnson - 2007 - 316 pages
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A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1840 - 256 pages
...developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity...already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments,

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Italy - 1840 - 368 pages
...developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity...already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions...
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Essays, Letters from Abroad

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1845 - 186 pages
...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity...impossible to predict the greatness of the results ; but whgn composition begins, inspiration is already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has...
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Shelley, Volume 2

John Addington Symonds - 1878 - 424 pages
...unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original parity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions...
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Shelley

John Addington Symonds - Poets, English - 1879 - 216 pages
...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity...already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions...
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Masterpieces of English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach 01 its departure, ss Could this influence be durable in its original purity...already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions...
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The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prose literature - 1880 - 444 pages
...and the conscious portions j of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity...already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry I _-| \that has ever been communicated to the world is probably u feeble shadow of the original conceptions...
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The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, how First ..., Volume 7

Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1880 - 438 pages
...unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original pnrity and force, it is impossible to predict the greatness...already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry . that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions...
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Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - English literature - 1882 - 686 pages
...and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach 01 its departure, is Could this influence be durable in its original purity...results ; but when composition begins, inspiration is aiready on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is...
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Specimens of English Prose Style: From Malory to Macaulay

George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 426 pages
...developed, and the conscious portions of our nature are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure. Could this influence be durable in its original purity...already on the decline, and the most glorious poetry that has ever been communicated to the world is probably a feeble shadow of the original conceptions...
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