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... sense of epigram which , unlike the constricting Augustan anti- thesis , liberates the explicit statement into wider areas of meaning . ' Bernard the monk ne saw not all , pardee ! ' - one has the sense of the author looking all round a ...
... sense of epigram which , unlike the constricting Augustan anti- thesis , liberates the explicit statement into wider areas of meaning . ' Bernard the monk ne saw not all , pardee ! ' - one has the sense of the author looking all round a ...
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... sense diminished after his early phase , after about 1870 , the later poems retain a Browningesque sense of character and show considerable ingenuity in managing a plot . Almost as neglected is Browning's other major disciple , Eugene ...
... sense diminished after his early phase , after about 1870 , the later poems retain a Browningesque sense of character and show considerable ingenuity in managing a plot . Almost as neglected is Browning's other major disciple , Eugene ...
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... sense of retrospect . Here we have art of the highest order : Since Providence , for the realization of some unknown purpose , has seen fit to leave this dangerous people on the face of the earth , and did not destroy it ..... Listen ...
... sense of retrospect . Here we have art of the highest order : Since Providence , for the realization of some unknown purpose , has seen fit to leave this dangerous people on the face of the earth , and did not destroy it ..... Listen ...
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Piers Plowman through Modern Eyes I | 1 |
Experimentalist Extraordinary | 30 |
Elizabethan Poetry | 69 |
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