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... poets to Ben Jonson is probably , as Professor Gregory Smith has recently argued , small . But not only Herrick , metaphysical ... poetic tradition of the century , a certain insistence may be permitted here . For the passage quoted does ...
... poets to Ben Jonson is probably , as Professor Gregory Smith has recently argued , small . But not only Herrick , metaphysical ... poetic tradition of the century , a certain insistence may be permitted here . For the passage quoted does ...
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... poet than in calling him a great poet , for he is certainly a great representative . He may be a greater poet than Marvell , but he did not write any poetry as indubitably great ... poetic norm . The Restoration itself has 33 THE LINE OF WIT.
... poet than in calling him a great poet , for he is certainly a great representative . He may be a greater poet than Marvell , but he did not write any poetry as indubitably great ... poetic norm . The Restoration itself has 33 THE LINE OF WIT.
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... poetic otherworld has been turned into a higher reality in the most effectual of ways : ' Life is ritual . ' So beauty is made truth , truth beauty for Lionel Johnson's phrase is his equivalent for Keats's . But if life is ritual , the ...
... poetic otherworld has been turned into a higher reality in the most effectual of ways : ' Life is ritual . ' So beauty is made truth , truth beauty for Lionel Johnson's phrase is his equivalent for Keats's . But if life is ritual , the ...
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