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Let him consider instead that the poetic process as it appears in the work of Poe, Baudelaire, and Eliot, and in writers of detective fiction, is also the manifest principle of historical reconstruction as used by Gilson.
Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters” The McAuley Lectures: Christian Humanism in Letters, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford Connecticut, (1954),p 53 , reprinted in The Medium and the Light (1999), p 157.
Year: 1954
Chapter: Effect
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