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... interests , their patent inadequacy to inform a sense of myth , of fable , of ordered wholes in experi- ence . ' His strength is of the kind that we indicate when , distinguishing between intelligence and ... interest 58 REVALUATION.
... interests , their patent inadequacy to inform a sense of myth , of fable , of ordered wholes in experi- ence . ' His strength is of the kind that we indicate when , distinguishing between intelligence and ... interest 58 REVALUATION.
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... interest . After the first two books , magnificent in their simple force ( party politics in the Grand Style Milton can compass ) , Paradise Lost , though there are intervals of relief , becomes dull and empty all , ' as Raleigh says ...
... interest . After the first two books , magnificent in their simple force ( party politics in the Grand Style Milton can compass ) , Paradise Lost , though there are intervals of relief , becomes dull and empty all , ' as Raleigh says ...
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... interest is not there - is not upon analysis and precision of statement . The keyword is that ' dirty ' in line eight ; our interest lies in the adroit combination of animus and urbanity . We note , too , that Pope is appealing to the ...
... interest is not there - is not upon analysis and precision of statement . The keyword is that ' dirty ' in line eight ; our interest lies in the adroit combination of animus and urbanity . We note , too , that Pope is appealing to the ...
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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