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George Herbert Cowling. -the activity which we call imagination . Shelley does not attempt to answer or to refute Peacock's philosophy of history . His view seems to be rather that in every age the poet is an interpreter , and that the ...
George Herbert Cowling. -the activity which we call imagination . Shelley does not attempt to answer or to refute Peacock's philosophy of history . His view seems to be rather that in every age the poet is an interpreter , and that the ...
Page 79
... imagination and of imaginative literature . Poets some- times have erred in advocating the moral aims of their times , which are temporary ( as , for example , puritanism in England or prohibition in America ) whereas true morality is ...
... imagination and of imaginative literature . Poets some- times have erred in advocating the moral aims of their times , which are temporary ( as , for example , puritanism in England or prohibition in America ) whereas true morality is ...
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... imagination is superseded by reason . The promoters of the greatest happiness of the greatest number , -the ... imaginations of men , ' and let them beware also of widening the gulf between rich and poor . If pleasure be the aim of human ...
... imagination is superseded by reason . The promoters of the greatest happiness of the greatest number , -the ... imaginations of men , ' and let them beware also of widening the gulf between rich and poor . If pleasure be the aim of human ...
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Adam and Eve admiration Adonais Aeneas Aeneid Alastor angels beauty became Belphegor benevolence blank verse Book Byron Bysshe Shelley character Chaucer child chorus Claire Clairmont comic death Defence of Poetry delight diction Dido dramatic Earth Eclogue Eliza elopement English epic eternal father feel Four Ages Georgics Greek Hamlet happy Harriet heart Heaven Hell hero heroine Hogg hope human ideal imagery imagination imitation inspiration intolerable Italian Italy Keats Latin laughter Leigh Hunt lived Livorno lovers magnificent mankind marriage married Mary Godwin Mary Shelley Milton mind nature never Oxford Paradise Lost passion Peacock Percy Bysshe Shelley perfect philosophy Pisa pity play poem poet poetic political Prometheus Prometheus Unbound Roderigo romantic Satan scene Shakespeare Shakespearean comedy Shelley wrote Shelley's sister soul spirit story style thee thing thou thought tion tragedy tragic true truth Twelfth Night tyranny Virgil Virgilian virtue Westbrook wife Williams woman written youth