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... ( earlier in Eliot's essay ) is used as though synonymous with ' religious ' , and this , we can agree , would be an absurdly limiting term if applied to Dante . Dr. Johnson took the view that devotional poetry is always unsatisfactory ...
... ( earlier in Eliot's essay ) is used as though synonymous with ' religious ' , and this , we can agree , would be an absurdly limiting term if applied to Dante . Dr. Johnson took the view that devotional poetry is always unsatisfactory ...
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... earlier . Tiny , dark - rose , self - glowing as a firefly's egg ... the entire point of the thrice - coinherent Trinity when every crown and every choir is vanished , and all sight and hearing is nothing else . ( " The Calling of ...
... earlier . Tiny , dark - rose , self - glowing as a firefly's egg ... the entire point of the thrice - coinherent Trinity when every crown and every choir is vanished , and all sight and hearing is nothing else . ( " The Calling of ...
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... earlier , is how form and content affected each other ; and how Eliot hit upon the forms he chose . The metrical form adopted for the lyric in East Coker is par- ticularly interesting in this respect , because of what Eliot saw as a ...
... earlier , is how form and content affected each other ; and how Eliot hit upon the forms he chose . The metrical form adopted for the lyric in East Coker is par- ticularly interesting in this respect , because of what Eliot saw as a ...
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