“Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form.”
Introduction
The Wedge (1944)
Context: Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form. The effect is beauty, what in a single object resolves our complex feelings of propriety.
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