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... touch with the tradition of urbane wit and grace running from Jonson through Carew to Marvell , that must be because the tradition is dead . And he is utterly out of touch with that tradition , though if Prior is not in the line of ...
... touch with the tradition of urbane wit and grace running from Jonson through Carew to Marvell , that must be because the tradition is dead . And he is utterly out of touch with that tradition , though if Prior is not in the line of ...
Page 245
... touch ; a sureness of touch that is the working of a fine organiza- tion . The Ode , that is , has the structure of a fine and complex organism ; whereas To a Skylark is a mere poetical outpouring , its ecstatic intensity ' being a sub ...
... touch ; a sureness of touch that is the working of a fine organiza- tion . The Ode , that is , has the structure of a fine and complex organism ; whereas To a Skylark is a mere poetical outpouring , its ecstatic intensity ' being a sub ...
Page 258
... touch , we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch . ' -O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts . ' But the contrast with Keats is as apparent as the com- 1 ' This Chiaro dell ' Erma was a ...
... touch , we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch . ' -O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts . ' But the contrast with Keats is as apparent as the com- 1 ' This Chiaro dell ' Erma was a ...
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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