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... present of English poetry with the correlated account of the past . But these metaphors of space , and even these temporal terms ' past ' and ' present , ' are equivocal . It must not be assumed that the account of the past given here ...
... present of English poetry with the correlated account of the past . But these metaphors of space , and even these temporal terms ' past ' and ' present , ' are equivocal . It must not be assumed that the account of the past given here ...
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... present book , and demanding another context . Shakespeare is too large a fact to be dealt with in that way ; and for the readers of this book he may be assumed to be a present enough fact to make the recur- rent reference to him ...
... present book , and demanding another context . Shakespeare is too large a fact to be dealt with in that way ; and for the readers of this book he may be assumed to be a present enough fact to make the recur- rent reference to him ...
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... present account of him , as it stands now , by taking note of criticisms that it will have provoked from a quarter opposite to that saluted in the last paragraph . Does not , for instance , the formula , ' recollection in tranquillity ...
... present account of him , as it stands now , by taking note of criticisms that it will have provoked from a quarter opposite to that saluted in the last paragraph . Does not , for instance , the formula , ' recollection in tranquillity ...
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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