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Page 59
... less sensitive perceptions , a more artificial grasp of sensation , to offset the supersensitive awareness of the school of Shakespeare , a versification less imitative of the flow of sensation and more architectural . What poetry ...
... less sensitive perceptions , a more artificial grasp of sensation , to offset the supersensitive awareness of the school of Shakespeare , a versification less imitative of the flow of sensation and more architectural . What poetry ...
Page 222
... less in it of intelligent sympathy than the lover supposes , and is less determined by the object of love ; but Shelley , we have seen , was , while on the one hand conscious of ardent altruism , on the other peculiarly weak in his hold ...
... less in it of intelligent sympathy than the lover supposes , and is less determined by the object of love ; but Shelley , we have seen , was , while on the one hand conscious of ardent altruism , on the other peculiarly weak in his hold ...
Page 223
... less conscious than the love of Love . It may fairly be said to involve a love of Hate , if not of hating : justification enough for putting it this way is provided by The Cenci , which exhibits a perverse luxury of insistence , not ...
... less conscious than the love of Love . It may fairly be said to involve a love of Hate , if not of hating : justification enough for putting it this way is provided by The Cenci , which exhibits a perverse luxury of insistence , not ...
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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