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Page 34
... metrical form adopted for the lyric in East Coker is par- ticularly interesting in this respect , because of what Eliot saw as a contrast between form and subject - matter . The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the ...
... metrical form adopted for the lyric in East Coker is par- ticularly interesting in this respect , because of what Eliot saw as a contrast between form and subject - matter . The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the ...
Page 44
... metrical principle on which his poem ' Christabel ' was written ( in his preface to the edition of 1816 ) , has been generally agreed to be inaccurate in some respects . The method of counting accents rather than syllables was not ' new ...
... metrical principle on which his poem ' Christabel ' was written ( in his preface to the edition of 1816 ) , has been generally agreed to be inaccurate in some respects . The method of counting accents rather than syllables was not ' new ...
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... metrical form and another , there is reason to ask whether we are reading him as he intended to be read . Sir Thomas Wyatt is such a poet , writing when the old four - beat alliterative line was giving place to the five - beat rising ...
... metrical form and another , there is reason to ask whether we are reading him as he intended to be read . Sir Thomas Wyatt is such a poet , writing when the old four - beat alliterative line was giving place to the five - beat rising ...
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