#239; begins by asking why we call a given grouping of words poetry and why Poetic Diction eBook ✓ these arouse aesthetic imagination and produce pleasure in a receptive reader Returning always to this personal experience of poetry Owen Barfield Diction A Study Epub Ý at the same time seeks objective standards of criticism.
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