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Page 106
... close : Their union would her ruine be , And her Tyrannick pow'r depose . And therefore her Decrees of Steel Us as the distant Poles have plac'd , ( Though Loves whole World on us doth wheel ) Not by themselves to be embrac'd . Unless ...
... close : Their union would her ruine be , And her Tyrannick pow'r depose . And therefore her Decrees of Steel Us as the distant Poles have plac'd , ( Though Loves whole World on us doth wheel ) Not by themselves to be embrac'd . Unless ...
Page 143
... close to the heart without banality and without ' pitching them in a key which " overdoes " them . " This negative way of putting it does not do full justice to the Elegy : the transmutation of Everyman's musings about death and the lot ...
... close to the heart without banality and without ' pitching them in a key which " overdoes " them . " This negative way of putting it does not do full justice to the Elegy : the transmutation of Everyman's musings about death and the lot ...
Page 287
... close and natural harmony . Pavlova is the beauty created by past ages evolved at the natural moment to perfection , like the perfect poem that grows out of the tradition . ( The image , difficult to realize , of one age ... stacked on ...
... close and natural harmony . Pavlova is the beauty created by past ages evolved at the natural moment to perfection , like the perfect poem that grows out of the tradition . ( The image , difficult to realize , of one age ... stacked on ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
BEN JONSON Continued | 27 |
ROSALINDS MADRIGAL | 33 |
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alliteration beauty bird blank verse blood body bora ring breath bright charm clouds colour conveyed couplet dance dark dead death delight diction Donne doth dream earth effect English Poetry eternal experience expression eyes F. R. Leavis fair fear feeling flowers give grace green hand hath hear heart heaven human imagination Jonson Judith Wright Keats L. C. Knights leaves light Lilith lines living look Lord lovers Lycidas Milton mind moon nature never night nymphs o'er passion phrase play pleasure poem poet poetic poetry Pope reality realized rhyme rhythm rich round satire Scholar Gipsy seems sense sing sleep soft song soul sound spirit spring stanza stars suggestion surprising sweet T. S. Eliot TAMBURLAINE tears thee theme things thou thought Tintern Abbey Tiresias tone trees turn verse vision vitality vivid voice VOLPONE wind words Wordsworth youth