Poets and Puritans: By T.R. Glover ...Methuen & Company, Limited, 1923 - 323 pages |
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... feeling and true expression ; its essence is not delusion but interpretation . It has well been called a " touchstone for insincerity . " " No one , who read the Faerie Queene with an open heart , could think of Spenser as anything but ...
... feeling and true expression ; its essence is not delusion but interpretation . It has well been called a " touchstone for insincerity . " " No one , who read the Faerie Queene with an open heart , could think of Spenser as anything but ...
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... feeling for the classical adjective with its fine colour , the same turn for allusion . The " gladsome mind , ” familiar in the psalm , runs through all the young poet's work . But more striking is the Ode on the Morning of Christ's ...
... feeling for the classical adjective with its fine colour , the same turn for allusion . The " gladsome mind , ” familiar in the psalm , runs through all the young poet's work . But more striking is the Ode on the Morning of Christ's ...
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... feeling . The " gentlest end of marriage " was com- panionship of soul , and though Milton's soul may be likened to a star that dwelt apart , it remains that he was keenly sensitive to solitude- " it is not good for man to be alone " is ...
... feeling . The " gentlest end of marriage " was com- panionship of soul , and though Milton's soul may be likened to a star that dwelt apart , it remains that he was keenly sensitive to solitude- " it is not good for man to be alone " is ...
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... feels it rather than strays away to admire the poet's skill . By a poem being sensuous Milton means that it must appeal to our sense of beauty along the lines of our experience . Here , it may be said , much of Paradise Lost ought to ...
... feels it rather than strays away to admire the poet's skill . By a poem being sensuous Milton means that it must appeal to our sense of beauty along the lines of our experience . Here , it may be said , much of Paradise Lost ought to ...
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... feels shame for " his lustre visibly impaired . " He " melts , " he says , at the harmless innocence of Adam and Eve , and has to excuse his devilish deeds with necessity . Is it possible that a creature with such seeds of good within ...
... feels shame for " his lustre visibly impaired . " He " melts , " he says , at the harmless innocence of Adam and Eve , and has to excuse his devilish deeds with necessity . Is it possible that a creature with such seeds of good within ...
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