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... mode . This mode , which is sufficiently realized in a considerable body of poems , may be described as consciously urbane , mature and civilized . Whatever its relation to any Latin originals , it is indisputably there , an achieved ...
... mode . This mode , which is sufficiently realized in a considerable body of poems , may be described as consciously urbane , mature and civilized . Whatever its relation to any Latin originals , it is indisputably there , an achieved ...
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... mode - quité alien and uncongenial to it ; with a reasonableness that has little to do with the tough reasonableness ' under- lying Marvell's lyric grace ( a grace of which Cowley has nothing ) . It is a spirit of good sense , of common ...
... mode - quité alien and uncongenial to it ; with a reasonableness that has little to do with the tough reasonableness ' under- lying Marvell's lyric grace ( a grace of which Cowley has nothing ) . It is a spirit of good sense , of common ...
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... mode is of the period . Cowper's The Castaway , for instance , both in its declamatory decorum and its precise and patterned rationality of statement plainly has close affin- ities with Johnson's poem : Obscurest night involv'd the sky ...
... mode is of the period . Cowper's The Castaway , for instance , both in its declamatory decorum and its precise and patterned rationality of statement plainly has close affin- ities with Johnson's poem : Obscurest night involv'd the sky ...
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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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achievement admirable aesthetic Augustan beauty Ben Jonson bright Byron Carew characteristic civilization Coleridge complete contemplation contrast course critical decorum Donne Dryden Dunciad effect eighteenth century Elegy Eliot emotional English poetry essay essential fact feeling flowers genius Gray's heart Heaven human Hyperion idiom imagery imagination insistence inspiration intelligence Jonson Keats Keats's kind less literary living Lycidas lyric Lytton Strachey Mac Flecknoe Marvell's Matthew Arnold merely Metaphysical Milton mind mode Mont Blanc moral movement nature ness Nightingale Note o'er obvious offered Oxford Book Paradise Lost passage phrase plain poem poet poetic polite Pope Pope's present prose realized relation representative rich Romantic Samson Agonistes satiric seems sense sensibility sensuous Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's significant solemn song soul spirit stanza strength stress subtle suggest sweet taste Tennyson thee things thou thought Tintern Abbey tion tone tradition turn uncon Victorian virtues words Wordsworth