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Page 43
... effect in such passages as Theseus's great speech on Destiny : ' The First Moevere of the cause above , Whan he first made the faire cheyne of love , Greet was th'effect , and heigh was his entente . Wel wiste he why , and what thereof ...
... effect in such passages as Theseus's great speech on Destiny : ' The First Moevere of the cause above , Whan he first made the faire cheyne of love , Greet was th'effect , and heigh was his entente . Wel wiste he why , and what thereof ...
Page 146
... effect of ambiguity . However , that ambiguity is controlled : the effect is to distract the reader's atten- tion away from the ostensible science to an obviously false world of vain appearances . In other instances we have primary ...
... effect of ambiguity . However , that ambiguity is controlled : the effect is to distract the reader's atten- tion away from the ostensible science to an obviously false world of vain appearances . In other instances we have primary ...
Page 257
... effect of ' Gerontion ' is going to be different from that of previous English poems . Instead of history we are given hints ; instead of characters , implication . Using Winters's terminology once again ( ibid . , pp . 57 ff . ) we ...
... effect of ' Gerontion ' is going to be different from that of previous English poems . Instead of history we are given hints ; instead of characters , implication . Using Winters's terminology once again ( ibid . , pp . 57 ff . ) we ...
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Piers Plowman through Modern Eyes I | 1 |
Experimentalist Extraordinary | 30 |
Elizabethan Poetry | 69 |
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