Revaluation: Tradition & Development in English PoetryOne of the century's great critics, now back in print. A scrutiny of verse from Donne to Keats, showing the main lines of development in the English tradition...the essential structure. With an Introduction by Paul Dean. |
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... insistence on ' art ' ; and one may use the term ' wit ' to emphasize the remoteness of this art from nineteenth - century notions of the lyrical . But the songs in Comus have not , in or beneath their simple grace , any such subtle ...
... insistence on ' art ' ; and one may use the term ' wit ' to emphasize the remoteness of this art from nineteenth - century notions of the lyrical . But the songs in Comus have not , in or beneath their simple grace , any such subtle ...
Page 84
... insisting on . What does need insisting on is that with this capacity for poised and subtle variety goes a remarkable command of varied satiric tones.2 The polite- Epilogue to the Satires , Dialogue II . 1 2 See Note . ness of the ...
... insisting on . What does need insisting on is that with this capacity for poised and subtle variety goes a remarkable command of varied satiric tones.2 The polite- Epilogue to the Satires , Dialogue II . 1 2 See Note . ness of the ...
Page 208
... insistent concern for ' rightness , ' the typical final product being what it is , serves to emphasize - little to do ... insistence on the social and the rational . When Wordsworth says that ' all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow ...
... insistent concern for ' rightness , ' the typical final product being what it is , serves to emphasize - little to do ... insistence on the social and the rational . When Wordsworth says that ' all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow ...
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