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History and Science
Brinton, Crane | January 24, 1948 issue

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This article presents information on the book "The Poetry of History," by Emery Neff. Neff's book is a defense of history as an art, as a part of literature. His epigraph, appropriately from a great practitioner of the art of history, George Macaulay Trevelyan, sets neatly the tone for the book. "The Poetry of History," does not consist of imagination roaming at large, but of imagination pursuing the fact and fastening upon It. In accordance with familiar notions on the relation of attack and defense, Neff has made one of his liveliest chapters an attack on history as science.

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POETRY of History, The (Book); NEFF, Emery; LITERATURE & history; ART & history; BOOKS; HUMANITIES
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