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... poetry was very much the opposite of that held by these poets of a hundred and fifty years earlier . To them , the process of writing was at least partly exploratory , as it was to the Symbolists . They launched a poem on to the waves ...
... poetry was very much the opposite of that held by these poets of a hundred and fifty years earlier . To them , the process of writing was at least partly exploratory , as it was to the Symbolists . They launched a poem on to the waves ...
Page xvi
... poetry ? -against Donne's Divine Poems , or Herbert's sonnet Prayer , or Vaughan's ecstatic hymn to innocence , The Retreat , to go no further afield than the kind of poetry that Johnson himself offered to criticise . Did Johnson not ...
... poetry ? -against Donne's Divine Poems , or Herbert's sonnet Prayer , or Vaughan's ecstatic hymn to innocence , The Retreat , to go no further afield than the kind of poetry that Johnson himself offered to criticise . Did Johnson not ...
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... poetry , that his call is obeyed without resistance , the reader feels himself in captivity to a higher and nobler mind , and criticism sinks in admiration . Milton's style was not modified by his subject ; what is shown with greater ...
... poetry , that his call is obeyed without resistance , the reader feels himself in captivity to a higher and nobler mind , and criticism sinks in admiration . Milton's style was not modified by his subject ; what is shown with greater ...
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