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... speak so that they can understand you ' . ' And this I take to be the point of Yeats's stricture upon the language of aesthetic Platonism in Spenser - that it asks to be translated into concepts : Allegory and , to a much greater degree ...
... speak so that they can understand you ' . ' And this I take to be the point of Yeats's stricture upon the language of aesthetic Platonism in Spenser - that it asks to be translated into concepts : Allegory and , to a much greater degree ...
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... speaks . These evidently are not what a modern audience might consider merely poetical , since they also occur in the propositions of his philosophic treatise on love : Amore is the property of that which has being , and by Amore all ...
... speaks . These evidently are not what a modern audience might consider merely poetical , since they also occur in the propositions of his philosophic treatise on love : Amore is the property of that which has being , and by Amore all ...
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... speaks , the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony . Never durst poet touch a pen to write , Until his ink were temp'red with Love's sighs ; O , then his lines would ravish savage ears , And plant in tyrants mild ...
... speaks , the voice of all the gods Make heaven drowsy with the harmony . Never durst poet touch a pen to write , Until his ink were temp'red with Love's sighs ; O , then his lines would ravish savage ears , And plant in tyrants mild ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION Pastoralism and Aesthetic Platonic Tradition I | 1 |
THE PASTORALISM OF TASSOS AMINTA | 21 |
The Shepherds Life | 44 |
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