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... applying the term will arise with other poets ( such as Vaughan , Southwell , Crashaw , Hopkins in Eliot's list ) ... applied to the poet himself lies in the range of experience included in the poetry . A major poet can encompass by ...
... applying the term will arise with other poets ( such as Vaughan , Southwell , Crashaw , Hopkins in Eliot's list ) ... applied to the poet himself lies in the range of experience included in the poetry . A major poet can encompass by ...
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... applied to Dante . Dr. Johnson took the view that devotional poetry is always unsatisfactory . The paucity of its topickes ' , he writes in a well- known passage , ' enforces perpetual repetition , and the sanctity of the matter rejects ...
... applied to Dante . Dr. Johnson took the view that devotional poetry is always unsatisfactory . The paucity of its topickes ' , he writes in a well- known passage , ' enforces perpetual repetition , and the sanctity of the matter rejects ...
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... applied to poetry , I have found myself driven to apply the word more embracingly than Eliot did in the text that was my starting - point ; and I have found that the term minor is wholly unsatisfactory in this context . The view of the ...
... applied to poetry , I have found myself driven to apply the word more embracingly than Eliot did in the text that was my starting - point ; and I have found that the term minor is wholly unsatisfactory in this context . The view of the ...
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