In Defense of Reading: A Reader's Approach to Literary CriticismReuben Arthur Brower, Richard Poirier |
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... Cordelia . Cordelia . And so I am ! I am ! Lear . Be your tears wet ? Yes , faith . I pray weep not . have poison for me , I will drink it . If you I know you do not love me ; for your sisters Have , as I do remember , done me wrong ...
... Cordelia . Cordelia . And so I am ! I am ! Lear . Be your tears wet ? Yes , faith . I pray weep not . have poison for me , I will drink it . If you I know you do not love me ; for your sisters Have , as I do remember , done me wrong ...
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... Cordelia - his suffering and his uncertainty about his own identity . All this is to say that the extraordinary sense of love in this scene is inseparable from its immense sadness . The mystery is not that Cordelia does " cure this ...
... Cordelia - his suffering and his uncertainty about his own identity . All this is to say that the extraordinary sense of love in this scene is inseparable from its immense sadness . The mystery is not that Cordelia does " cure this ...
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... Cordelia is Cordelia . Surely there is no need to identify her with the abstraction Love in order to say that she is extraordinarily loving . If we treat Lear's recognition of Cordelia as a moral awareness that gives him a new personal ...
... Cordelia is Cordelia . Surely there is no need to identify her with the abstraction Love in order to say that she is extraordinarily loving . If we treat Lear's recognition of Cordelia as a moral awareness that gives him a new personal ...
Contents
Fiction and History | 11 |
Lyric and Narrative Poetry | 22 |
Frosts Poetry of Dialogue | 38 |
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