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... mean is a ' gh ' or ' y ' , according to context ? Do we really have to write ' somer ' when we know the poet means ' summer ' ; or ' bourn [ e ] syde ' when it is obvious that the modern form is ' burn - side ' ? Depend upon it , the ...
... mean is a ' gh ' or ' y ' , according to context ? Do we really have to write ' somer ' when we know the poet means ' summer ' ; or ' bourn [ e ] syde ' when it is obvious that the modern form is ' burn - side ' ? Depend upon it , the ...
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... means of curing the various characters of their more extreme humours . Thus the jealous hus- band is made to overhear the wooing of his young wife by Letoy , the lord of fancy . This latter speaks , like other Caroline figures , in ...
... means of curing the various characters of their more extreme humours . Thus the jealous hus- band is made to overhear the wooing of his young wife by Letoy , the lord of fancy . This latter speaks , like other Caroline figures , in ...
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... means that the poem moves , if it moves at all , not through logical connections but through images associated emo- tionally and suggestively . Often this works in terms of catalogue : De Bailhache , Fresca , Mrs. Cammel , whirled ...
... means that the poem moves , if it moves at all , not through logical connections but through images associated emo- tionally and suggestively . Often this works in terms of catalogue : De Bailhache , Fresca , Mrs. Cammel , whirled ...
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Experimentalist Extraordinary | 30 |
Elizabethan Poetry | 69 |
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