Poets and Story-tellers: A Book of Critical EssaysMacmillan, 1949 - 201 pages |
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Page 62
... Pindaric Odes especially are whisper- ing galleries , murmurous with echoes of dead poets ' voices - Shakespeare's , Spenser's , Cowley's . Sometimes he will lift a whole passage ; the image of Jove's eagle in the second stanza of The ...
... Pindaric Odes especially are whisper- ing galleries , murmurous with echoes of dead poets ' voices - Shakespeare's , Spenser's , Cowley's . Sometimes he will lift a whole passage ; the image of Jove's eagle in the second stanza of The ...
Page 66
... Pindaric Odes that Gray's virtuosity appears most conspicuously . They are not , however , his most successful works . For in them he is dealing with subject - matter which does reveal his limitations . This is especially true of The ...
... Pindaric Odes that Gray's virtuosity appears most conspicuously . They are not , however , his most successful works . For in them he is dealing with subject - matter which does reveal his limitations . This is especially true of The ...
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... Pindaric Odes . No wonder : they were the product of the deepest emotional crisis of his life . The Pindarics were written in his tranquil middle age ; these other poems , all except the Elegy , in the later months of 1742 ; and the ...
... Pindaric Odes . No wonder : they were the product of the deepest emotional crisis of his life . The Pindarics were written in his tranquil middle age ; these other poems , all except the Elegy , in the later months of 1742 ; and the ...
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