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... wrote his essay . For example , in 1932 , when the first Oxford Com- panion to English Literature was published , the usually admirable Sir Paul Harvey described Herbert's verse as ' of a religious char- acter , marked by quaint and ...
... wrote his essay . For example , in 1932 , when the first Oxford Com- panion to English Literature was published , the usually admirable Sir Paul Harvey described Herbert's verse as ' of a religious char- acter , marked by quaint and ...
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... wrote : I am glad ... that you like part IV , which is in a way the heart of the matter . My intention was to avoid a pastiche of George Herbert or Crashaw - it would be folly to try - and to do something in the style of Cleveland or ...
... wrote : I am glad ... that you like part IV , which is in a way the heart of the matter . My intention was to avoid a pastiche of George Herbert or Crashaw - it would be folly to try - and to do something in the style of Cleveland or ...
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... wrote them , been thinking in musical terms . ' Yet Auden's analysis , assuming a rigid similarity between lines in the stanza - structure , leads to some odd scansions : as for instance with the line ' Their holy vigil ' , which he ...
... wrote them , been thinking in musical terms . ' Yet Auden's analysis , assuming a rigid similarity between lines in the stanza - structure , leads to some odd scansions : as for instance with the line ' Their holy vigil ' , which he ...
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