Heterochrony in Evolution
A Multidisciplinary Approach
... an adult poet is simply an individual in a state of arrested development-in brief, a sort of moron. Just as all of us, in utero, pass through a stage in which we are tadpoles, ... so all of us pass through a state, in our nonage, when we are poets. A youth of seventeen who is not a poet is simply a donkey: his development has been arrested even anterior to that of the tadpole. But a man of fifty who still writes poetry is either an unfortunate who has never developed, intellectually, beyond his teens, or a conscious buffoon who pretends to be something he isn't-something far younger and juicier than he actually is. -H. 1. Mencken, High an…
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- ISBN: 978-0-306-42947-7
- EAN: 9780306429477
- Produktnummer: 9417633
- Verlag: Springer Us
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1988
- Seitenangabe: 372 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.0 cm x D2.5 cm 723 g
- Auflage: 1988
- Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 723
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