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... vision and heroic utterance . But , however restricted poets ' sympathies may or must be , readers enjoy a more catholic freedom - unless their sensi- bility has been stunted by the normal contemporary limi- tation of poetry to wry ...
... vision and heroic utterance . But , however restricted poets ' sympathies may or must be , readers enjoy a more catholic freedom - unless their sensi- bility has been stunted by the normal contemporary limi- tation of poetry to wry ...
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... vision of perfection , though its content changed . In early poems , from some Latin elegies and the Nativity to Lycidas , it had been quite literally a glimpse of heaven ; in the pamphlets the vision was translated into a concrete ...
... vision of perfection , though its content changed . In early poems , from some Latin elegies and the Nativity to Lycidas , it had been quite literally a glimpse of heaven ; in the pamphlets the vision was translated into a concrete ...
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... vision . Both poems develop - in a different sequence - the contrast between the flux and dross of earth and the stability and perfection of heaven ; the second poem is of course built on the musical metaphor of discord and harmony . In ...
... vision . Both poems develop - in a different sequence - the contrast between the flux and dross of earth and the stability and perfection of heaven ; the second poem is of course built on the musical metaphor of discord and harmony . In ...
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Introduction | 9 |
16081632 | 17 |
St Pauls School and Cambridge | 18 |
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