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And when we do this we feel that some of the points made about Swinburne may be made about Poe also , the main one being that he has an excessive interest in the sound of the sequence of words , sound for its own sake , and excessive ...
And when we do this we feel that some of the points made about Swinburne may be made about Poe also , the main one being that he has an excessive interest in the sound of the sequence of words , sound for its own sake , and excessive ...
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With deep affection , And recollection , I often think of Those Shandon bells , Whose sounds so wild would , In the ... Sweet Cork , of thee ; With thy bells of Shandon , That sound so grand on The pleasant waters Of the River Lee .
With deep affection , And recollection , I often think of Those Shandon bells , Whose sounds so wild would , In the ... Sweet Cork , of thee ; With thy bells of Shandon , That sound so grand on The pleasant waters Of the River Lee .
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Tennyson's aim is not an ambitious one : it is to evoke , mainly by the sound of words , the simple feeling of the attractiveness of a sensuously idyllic life without effort and action ; but within its limits the poetry is admirable .
Tennyson's aim is not an ambitious one : it is to evoke , mainly by the sound of words , the simple feeling of the attractiveness of a sensuously idyllic life without effort and action ; but within its limits the poetry is admirable .
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| Title | Literature and Criticism A Pelican book |
| Author | H. Coombes |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Chatto and Windus, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 190 pages |
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