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The symmetrically regular rhyming in each stanza is part of a larger symmetry by which , in this section of the poem , the key phrase ' For ADORATION ' slips , stanza by stanza , from the first line to the sixth twice over ; and this in ...
The symmetrically regular rhyming in each stanza is part of a larger symmetry by which , in this section of the poem , the key phrase ' For ADORATION ' slips , stanza by stanza , from the first line to the sixth twice over ; and this in ...
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... sets these lines from the Lay along with stanzas from Blake , from Burns , and from Tom Moore , to recreate very ... the lightness of masculine endings , shadings of echo and progression from stanza to stanza , and indeed in every ...
... sets these lines from the Lay along with stanzas from Blake , from Burns , and from Tom Moore , to recreate very ... the lightness of masculine endings , shadings of echo and progression from stanza to stanza , and indeed in every ...
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In the first stanzas of this poem , the reader is uncertain which sort of poet he is dealing with , so uncertain that ... For the leap to God would have to be made in the verse , and so it would demand , not Bryant's stanza , but some ...
In the first stanzas of this poem , the reader is uncertain which sort of poet he is dealing with , so uncertain that ... For the leap to God would have to be made in the verse , and so it would demand , not Bryant's stanza , but some ...
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Contents
Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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| Title | Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series |
| Author | Donald Davie |
| Publisher | Carcanet, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0856359793, 9780856359798 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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