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contemporary descriptions of intercourse so seldom convey, because newborn and thus generalized, in the sense of primitive organisms of art as opposed to the personal achievement of great English poets dealing with an evening in the country, a bit of sky in a river, the nostalgia of remote sounds—things utterly beyond the reach of Homer or Horace. Readers are directed to that book—on a very high shelf, in a very bad light—but

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描写很少传达的东西，因为是新生事物，并因此被泛化，就艺术作为原始的有机体的意义而言，有别于伟大的英国诗人的个人成就，他们笔下的乡间一夜、水中的一线天际、悠远声响引发的怀旧之情——完全超出了荷马或贺拉斯的范畴。读者们被引向那本书——置于高高的书架之上，藏于幽暗的光线之中——但