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Certainly, reading Post-Structuralist prose is a form of work, like jogging with a nail in your shoe.
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One senses that Hegel was possible only in German, and finds it natural that Locke in a language where and precede should have arrived at the thing after sorting out its sensory qualities, whereas Descartes in a language where
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The remoter poetry in particular was replete with , an effect being something hypnotic we cannot quite understand, whiteness of moon and wave related to the setting of Time in a manner "too subtle for the intellect." And all over Europe, by the late 19th century, poets had decided that effects were intrinsic to poetry, and were aiming at them by deliberate process. By the end of the century, in France, whole poems have been made "too subtl..
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Chesterton never achieves a great poem because his poems are compilations of statements not intensely felt but only intensely meant.
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