Literature and CriticismChatto and Windus, 1953 - 190 pages |
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Page 76
... verse , for the verse has a rather flat movement and a rather too set , too neat pattern . The verse is not at all pretentious , however ; it has the considerable ' negative ' virtue of not trying to impress showily , it is ' sincere ...
... verse , for the verse has a rather flat movement and a rather too set , too neat pattern . The verse is not at all pretentious , however ; it has the considerable ' negative ' virtue of not trying to impress showily , it is ' sincere ...
Page 88
... verse form is not thoughtful poetry ; this would appear , then , to be ob- vious enough . Yet considerable and even great poets have on occasion so far been untrue to themselves as to give wordy utterance to their favourite ideas and ...
... verse form is not thoughtful poetry ; this would appear , then , to be ob- vious enough . Yet considerable and even great poets have on occasion so far been untrue to themselves as to give wordy utterance to their favourite ideas and ...
Page 90
... verse . Mr. Eliot has expressed profound and far - reaching thoughts in the ' Four Quartets ' and elsewhere . But in Donne and Dryden there are qualities that matter more than the ' truth ' of the thoughts ; and Mr. Eliot's verse ...
... verse . Mr. Eliot has expressed profound and far - reaching thoughts in the ' Four Quartets ' and elsewhere . But in Donne and Dryden there are qualities that matter more than the ' truth ' of the thoughts ; and Mr. Eliot's verse ...
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