To get a better view of this process, let me take you back to that point in the nineteenth century where we saw Edgar Poe discover the poetic process — a discovery which included the new symbolist poetry (very high-brow) and the new detective thriller (very low-brow).
Catholic Humanism and Modern Letters” The McAuley Lectures: Christian Humanism in Letters, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford Connecticut, (1954), p 58, reprinted in The Medium and the Light (1999), p 163.
Year: 1954
Chapter:
Poetry
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
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