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... spirit in which Donne uses the stanza - form- for he does indeed strictly use it : the exigencies of the pattern become means to the inevitable naturalness ; they play an essential part in the consummate control of intonation , gesture ...
... spirit in which Donne uses the stanza - form- for he does indeed strictly use it : the exigencies of the pattern become means to the inevitable naturalness ; they play an essential part in the consummate control of intonation , gesture ...
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... spirit quite out of resonance with the Metaphysical mode - quite alien and uncongenial to it ; with a reasonableness that has little to do with the ' tough reasonableness ' under- lying Marvell's lyric grace ( a grace of which Cowley ...
... spirit quite out of resonance with the Metaphysical mode - quite alien and uncongenial to it ; with a reasonableness that has little to do with the ' tough reasonableness ' under- lying Marvell's lyric grace ( a grace of which Cowley ...
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... spirit , they are magnificently effective now . But the appropriate spirit is not that which Pope demands ; we are not to strain the inner ear ( if the convenient expression may be allowed to pass ) as if , behind the immediate effect ...
... spirit , they are magnificently effective now . But the appropriate spirit is not that which Pope demands ; we are not to strain the inner ear ( if the convenient expression may be allowed to pass ) as if , behind the immediate effect ...
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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