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... natural order , ' our own wronged flesh ' working ( Auden says in his sequence ' Canonical Hours ' ) to renew exhausted cells ; or with a moral imperative which Hill writes of in ' Te Lucis ante terminum ' describing a summer wood ...
... natural order , ' our own wronged flesh ' working ( Auden says in his sequence ' Canonical Hours ' ) to renew exhausted cells ; or with a moral imperative which Hill writes of in ' Te Lucis ante terminum ' describing a summer wood ...
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... natural to the poet is , we should expect to find , a sacramental one : the divine is perceived in the created world . There is also , in our century , a paradoxical acknowledgement of God's reality through the per- ception of his ...
... natural to the poet is , we should expect to find , a sacramental one : the divine is perceived in the created world . There is also , in our century , a paradoxical acknowledgement of God's reality through the per- ception of his ...
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... natural ' Their hóly vígil ' . Coleridge's description of the 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 ...
... natural ' Their hóly vígil ' . Coleridge's description of the 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 ...
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