Revaluation: Tradition & Development in English Poetry |
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... feeling that invites the critic to revise the limited view of the possibilities that is got from studying the tradition of wit . As an influence in the Victorian age he suffers the characteristic transmutation examined in the note on ...
... feeling that invites the critic to revise the limited view of the possibilities that is got from studying the tradition of wit . As an influence in the Victorian age he suffers the characteristic transmutation examined in the note on ...
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... feelings of human nature . I would fain hope that I have done so . But a great Poet ought to do more than this ; he ought , to a certain degree , to rectify men's feelings , to give them new compositions of feelings , to render their ...
... feelings of human nature . I would fain hope that I have done so . But a great Poet ought to do more than this ; he ought , to a certain degree , to rectify men's feelings , to give them new compositions of feelings , to render their ...
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... feelings , that my descriptions of such objects as strongly excite those feelings , will be found to carry along with ... feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts , which are indeed the representatives of all our past feelings ...
... feelings , that my descriptions of such objects as strongly excite those feelings , will be found to carry along with ... feeling are modified and directed by our thoughts , which are indeed the representatives of all our past feelings ...
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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