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GREEK ARCHITECTURE by HERMAN MELVILLE

Poet Analysis

First Line: NOT MAGNITUDE, NOT LAVISHNESS
Last Line: BUT REVERENCE FOR THE ARCHETYPE.
Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE & ARCHITECTS; GREECE; GREEKS;
Not magnitude, not lavishness,
But Form -- the Site;
Not innovating wilfulness,
But reverence for the Archetype.



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