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... 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 ...
Page 15
... Donne's songs are , though a continuity of intermediate modes , in touch at the other end of the scale with the mode ... Donne . It is , of course , Thomas Carew - Carew who exemplifies Donne's part in a mode or tradition ( or whatever ...
... Donne's songs are , though a continuity of intermediate modes , in touch at the other end of the scale with the mode ... Donne . It is , of course , Thomas Carew - Carew who exemplifies Donne's part in a mode or tradition ( or whatever ...
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... Donne is to say something more im- portant about him than that he latinized . The force of associating him with Spenser is not that he was himself sage and serious ' ; and in contrasting him with Donne one is not , as seems also ...
... Donne is to say something more im- portant about him than that he latinized . The force of associating him with Spenser is not that he was himself sage and serious ' ; and in contrasting him with Donne one is not , as seems also ...
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achievement admirable aesthetic Augustan beauty Ben Jonson bright 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 light literary living Lycidas lyrical 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