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... nature in himself . And , in the passage which Jeffrey ignores a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents , or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind ... -the boy becomes ...
... nature in himself . And , in the passage which Jeffrey ignores a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents , or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind ... -the boy becomes ...
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... nature what was , in fact , part of the main structure of his mind , permeating his poetry through and through . If ... natural lyric gift ; like them , he forsook his natural talent in order to convert the world . Many of his ...
... nature what was , in fact , part of the main structure of his mind , permeating his poetry through and through . If ... natural lyric gift ; like them , he forsook his natural talent in order to convert the world . Many of his ...
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... nature of the work such poets can do . The resources at a writer's disposal will be seriously warped if he attempts to make English sound like Italian ; if he seeks to avoid the letter ' s ' ; if he concentrates upon the image at the ...
... nature of the work such poets can do . The resources at a writer's disposal will be seriously warped if he attempts to make English sound like Italian ; if he seeks to avoid the letter ' s ' ; if he concentrates upon the image at the ...
Contents
Piers Plowman through Modern Eyes I | 1 |
Experimentalist Extraordinary | 30 |
Elizabethan Poetry | 69 |
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