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  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Wyndham Lewis 1914

    Long live the great art vortex sprung up in the centre of this town! We stand for the Reality of the Present—not for the sentimental Future, or the sacripant Past. We want...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Alice Notley 1998

    For a long time I've seen my job as bound up with the necessity of noncompliance with pressures, dictates, atmospheres of, variously, poetic factions, society at large, my own past...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Ezra Pound 1914

    VORTEX. POUND. ______           The vortex is the point of maximum energy.          It represents, in mechanics, the greatest efficiency.          We use the words “greatest efficiency” in the precise sense—as they would be used...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Gertrude Stein 1925

    There is singularly nothing that makes a difference a difference in beginning and in the middle and in ending except that each generation has something different at which they are...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Jack Spicer 1965

    THOMAS PARKINSON:(1) I think we can start the lecture now. This seems to be old home week. We have Jack Spicer with us, as we have off and on now...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Jack Spicer 1965

    JACK SPICER: Well, I really ought to explain the structure of the three lecture/readings, more than is on the flyer that some of you saw. Essentially what’s going to happen...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Aristotle 335 BCE

    SECTION 1 PART I I propose to treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds, noting the essential quality of each, to inquire into the structure of the plot...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Plato 380 BCE

    BOOK III [participants] SOCRATES–ADEIMANTUS [Socrates narrates:] Such then, I said, are our principles of theology—some tales are to be told, and others are not to be told to our disciples from their youth...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Matthew Arnold 1880

    “The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer...

  • Essay on Poetic Theory
    By Sir Philip Sidney 1583

    When the right virtuous Edward Wotton and I were at the Emperor’s [Maximilian II] court together, we gave ourselves to learn horsemanship of John Pietro Pugliano, one that with great...

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