Discordia Concors: The Wit of Metaphysical Poetry |
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... poet's meta- phors are true and not demonic . And because an essential relationship between the earthly and heavenly ... poetic meta- phors in their correspondence to God's own " copy . " At least three kinds of strain pervade ...
... poet's meta- phors are true and not demonic . And because an essential relationship between the earthly and heavenly ... poetic meta- phors in their correspondence to God's own " copy . " At least three kinds of strain pervade ...
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... poet's advice to the reader to " Get a good stock of these [ virtues ] , then draw the card / That suites him best , of whom thy speech is heard " ( 293-94 ) . The wise man shows his best , " prime " qualities , " But a proud ignorance ...
... poet's advice to the reader to " Get a good stock of these [ virtues ] , then draw the card / That suites him best , of whom thy speech is heard " ( 293-94 ) . The wise man shows his best , " prime " qualities , " But a proud ignorance ...
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... poetic act is creative not only of the poem , but of the poem as a cosmic structure - it is the work of the romantic imagination responding to nature's sublimity ; God no longer raises the metaphysical poet's wit to create metaphors ...
... poetic act is creative not only of the poem , but of the poem as a cosmic structure - it is the work of the romantic imagination responding to nature's sublimity ; God no longer raises the metaphysical poet's wit to create metaphors ...
Contents
Yoking of Opposites | 14 |
Discovery of Occult | 37 |
Paradoxes of | 55 |
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