The basic distinction between subject and content is overlooked here.  To say 
that the subject is not in the poem but outside it seems to conflate subject 
and content as subject.  It is more accurate, i think, to regard subject as 
being inside the poem and content outside it.
wc

Miller says:
Finally, Kivy picks up  Bradley's  fourth quote that "an actual poem is the
succession of experiences - sounds, images,thoughts, emotions - through which
we pass  when we are reading as poetically as we can" -----to show that it
contradicts his statement that "the subject is not as such inside the poem but
outside it":

"since the whole existence of the poem, on Bradley's account,is "in your
head", an "imaginitive experience",  a distinction between what is "in the
poem" and what is not... obviously won't wash"

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