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... intensity ( an intensity that Dryden , with his virtues of good humour and good nature , was in- capable of ) , and this is manifest in the very much tauter and more sensitive verse , the finer life of the movement . As for comic ...
... intensity ( an intensity that Dryden , with his virtues of good humour and good nature , was in- capable of ) , and this is manifest in the very much tauter and more sensitive verse , the finer life of the movement . As for comic ...
Page 211
... intensity of aspiration towards it in which his poetry is unequalled.'1 That is the best that can be respectably said . Actually , that quivering intensity , ' offered in itself apart from any substance , offered instead of any object ...
... intensity of aspiration towards it in which his poetry is unequalled.'1 That is the best that can be respectably said . Actually , that quivering intensity , ' offered in itself apart from any substance , offered instead of any object ...
Page 245
... intensity of realization , but also an extraordinary rightness and delicacy of touch ; a sureness of touch that is the working of a fine organiza- tion . The Ode , that is , has the structure of a fine and complex organism ; whereas To ...
... intensity of realization , but also an extraordinary rightness and delicacy of touch ; a sureness of touch that is the working of a fine organiza- tion . The Ode , that is , has the structure of a fine and complex organism ; whereas To ...
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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