Islands
AN island is a symbol. It symbolises individuality and-with apologies to the Regius Professor of Tautology-it symbolises isolation. We have put the less obvious symbol first because we like to follow the true logical order in things; isolation is the offspring, the chief inseparable accident, of ind...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The Academy, 1914 1914, 1913-09, p.390-391 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | AN island is a symbol. It symbolises individuality and-with apologies to the Regius Professor of Tautology-it symbolises isolation. We have put the less obvious symbol first because we like to follow the true logical order in things; isolation is the offspring, the chief inseparable accident, of individuality. Matthew Arnold has finely expressed this symbolism in one of his poems: |
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| ISSN: | 0269-3321 |