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As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely esthetic and literary; but after Counter-Statement (1931), he began to discriminate a "rhetorical" or persuasive component in literature, and thereupon became a philosopher of language and human conduct. In A Grammar of... read more
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AN OLD POET, libertarian and regicide, blind, fallen on evil days, in sullen warlike verse celebrates Samson.
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- Kenneth Burke (Author)
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