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Page 145
... stanza- comes again in Here the wren of softest note Wooes the Queen of Solemn Thought , a line that , in tone and movement , stands out oddly from amidst the Gray , Collins and Coleridge of this last stanza . The next stanza provides ...
... stanza- comes again in Here the wren of softest note Wooes the Queen of Solemn Thought , a line that , in tone and movement , stands out oddly from amidst the Gray , Collins and Coleridge of this last stanza . The next stanza provides ...
Page 247
... stanza , the ' draught of vintage , ' Cool'd a long age in the deep - delved earth , the coolness ( having banished the drowsy fever ) playing voluptuously against the warmth of the warm South . ' The sensuous luxury keeps its element ...
... stanza , the ' draught of vintage , ' Cool'd a long age in the deep - delved earth , the coolness ( having banished the drowsy fever ) playing voluptuously against the warmth of the warm South . ' The sensuous luxury keeps its element ...
Page 252
... stanza repre- sents the actual upon which the poem turns its back , seeking deception . Though the fancy cannot ... stanza , with its ' green altar ' and its ' peaceful citadel . ' But even here we are made aware of a price to be paid ...
... stanza repre- sents the actual upon which the poem turns its back , seeking deception . Though the fancy cannot ... stanza , with its ' green altar ' and its ' peaceful citadel . ' But even here we are made aware of a price to be paid ...
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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