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... feels a yearning inspired into creation . As ever with Chaucer , this attitude is qualified . The pilgrim has his limitations ... feel that a churl , for example , is a real churl - speaking through Chaucer , perhaps , but having his own ...
... feels a yearning inspired into creation . As ever with Chaucer , this attitude is qualified . The pilgrim has his limitations ... feel that a churl , for example , is a real churl - speaking through Chaucer , perhaps , but having his own ...
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... feels itself threatened by kindness , as well as by unkindness . It is a mature poet feigning the tentative quality of first passion . The basic feel of the lyric derives from Horace or Propertius , but perhaps Tibullus is the poet most ...
... feels itself threatened by kindness , as well as by unkindness . It is a mature poet feigning the tentative quality of first passion . The basic feel of the lyric derives from Horace or Propertius , but perhaps Tibullus is the poet most ...
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... feel of monologue . A recollection in tranquillity would hardly fill the bill , especially if the tranquillity was that of the poet rather than that of the speaker . What we would miss would be the presence of a dramatic situation ...
... feel of monologue . A recollection in tranquillity would hardly fill the bill , especially if the tranquillity was that of the poet rather than that of the speaker . What we would miss would be the presence of a dramatic situation ...
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Piers Plowman through Modern Eyes I | 1 |
Experimentalist Extraordinary | 30 |
Elizabethan Poetry | 69 |
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