A Strange Discovery

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Charles Romyn Dake. A Strange Discovery

A Strange Discovery

Table of Contents

HOW WE FOUND DIRK PETERS

The FIRST Chapter

The SECOND Chapter

The THIRD Chapter

The FOURTH Chapter

The FIFTH Chapter

The SIXTH Chapter

The SEVENTH Chapter

The EIGHTH Chapter

The NINTH Chapter

The TENTH Chapter

The ELEVENTH Chapter

The TWELFTH Chapter

The THIRTEENTH Chapter

The FOURTEENTH Chapter

The FIFTEENTH Chapter

The SIXTEENTH Chapter

The SEVENTEENTH Chapter

The EIGHTEENTH Chapter

The NINETEENTH Chapter

The TWENTIETH Chapter

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Charles Romyn Dake

Published by Good Press, 2022

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"Then you believe," I said, "that both the state of feeling from which true poetry arises, and the particular words by which the feeling is conveyed, are inspired."

"I do. But Poe was able actually to improve the language of inspiration, whilst transmitting uninjured the poetic conception. Those stanzas in Grey's 'Elegy' which convey from him to us the psychic wave of poetic impulse, may have been hundreds of times altered in their wording, through seven years of tentative effort; and it is possible that he succeeded in retaining the original feeling—the poem is certainly artistic. But the feeling conveyed by Grey is commonplace enough, anyway; whilst that transmitted by Poe is wholly unique, and intensely absorbing—indeed, a startling revelation. I have always felt that Byron, Milton, Shakespeare, found within their souls their poetry, and that the linguistic expression of it came to them as naturally as did the feeling."

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