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... 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 more ...
... 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 more ...
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... human suffering to which his more immediately personal experience leads him has a like impersonal strength . This profound tragic impersonality has its concentrated symbolic expression in the vision of Moneta's face : And yet I had a ...
... human suffering to which his more immediately personal experience leads him has a like impersonal strength . This profound tragic impersonality has its concentrated symbolic expression in the vision of Moneta's face : And yet I had a ...
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... human passion far above , That leaves a heart high - sorrowful and cloy'd , A burning forehead , and a parching tongue . 6 In the next stanza it is , as my correspondent says , plain that Keats is seeing the urn as an urn while ...
... human passion far above , That leaves a heart high - sorrowful and cloy'd , A burning forehead , and a parching tongue . 6 In the next stanza it is , as my correspondent says , plain that Keats is seeing the urn as an urn while ...
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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