3 Note B.

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4 What is here called ‘substance’ is what people generally mean when they use the word ‘subject’ and insist on the value of the subject. I am not arguing against this usage, or in favour of the usage which I have adopted for the sake of clearness. It does not matter which we employ, so long as we and others know what we mean. (I use ‘substance’ and ‘content’ indifferently.)

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5 These remarks will hold good, mutatis mutandis, if by ‘substance’ is understood the ‘moral’ or the ‘idea’ of a poem, although perhaps in one instance out of five thousand this may be found in so many words in the poem.

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6 On the other hand, the absence, or worse than absence, of style, in this sense, is a serious matter.

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7 Note C.

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8 This paragraph is criticized in Note D.

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9 Note E.

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10 Not that to Schiller ‘form’ meant mere style and versification.

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11 Note F.

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12 Note G.

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