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Page 11
... Donne so potent an influence in the seventeenth century makes him now at once for us , without his being the less felt as of his period , contemporary - obviously a living poet in the most important sense . And it is not any ...
... Donne so potent an influence in the seventeenth century makes him now at once for us , without his being the less felt as of his period , contemporary - obviously a living poet in the most important sense . And it is not any ...
Page 12
... Donne uses the stanza - form— for he does indeed strictly use it : the exigencies of the pattern become means to the inevitable naturalness ; they play an essential part in the consummate control of intonation , gesture , movement and ...
... Donne uses the stanza - form— for he does indeed strictly use it : the exigencies of the pattern become means to the inevitable naturalness ; they play an essential part in the consummate control of intonation , gesture , movement and ...
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... Donne's characteristic poetry - in the presentment of situations , the liveliness of enactment - something fairly to be called dramatic . Satyre iii , which one is glad to find in this Oxford Book , very obviously justifies the ...
... Donne's characteristic poetry - in the presentment of situations , the liveliness of enactment - something fairly to be called dramatic . Satyre iii , which one is glad to find in this Oxford Book , very obviously justifies the ...
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Revaluation: Tradition & Development in English Poetry F R (Frank Raymond) 1895-1 Leavis No preview available - 2021 |
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