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Essays
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Paradise Lost
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W. K. WIMSA
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The Verbal Icon
Fourteen
Studies in the Mean–
ing of Poetry
by one of the
nation's leading literary critics,
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ten in collaboration with Monroe C. Beardsley. The first section exposes
as fallacies some prevalent approaches to the critical object. Then Mr.
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Charles A. Beard
An Appraisal
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and work by twelve outstand–
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HOWARD K. BEALE
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