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... poet's ideas ( the rel- ative originality I shall always insist upon ) by that very absence of sources . Neo - Platonism offered much too easy , and much too loose , an explanation : it accounted for none of the traits that seemed to me ...
... poet's ideas ( the rel- ative originality I shall always insist upon ) by that very absence of sources . Neo - Platonism offered much too easy , and much too loose , an explanation : it accounted for none of the traits that seemed to me ...
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... poet or the thinker . Quite as often it was the poet who influenced the politician in him , or the private man , by giving him a magnificent but impos- sible ideal to carry out into deeds . And the failures of the practical man again ...
... poet or the thinker . Quite as often it was the poet who influenced the politician in him , or the private man , by giving him a magnificent but impos- sible ideal to carry out into deeds . And the failures of the practical man again ...
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... poet , John Milton . " This is because there was deeply rooted in Milton a tendency to look upon himself not as an exception in the romantic manner , but as a normal representative of human nature . His high opinion of himself is also a ...
... poet , John Milton . " This is because there was deeply rooted in Milton a tendency to look upon himself not as an exception in the romantic manner , but as a normal representative of human nature . His high opinion of himself is also a ...
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... poet . The second is a sort of moral intractableness , which led Milton to sacrifice every practical or sentimental consideration to a high ideal of purity and truth , in private or public life . This latter trait , generally referred ...
... poet . The second is a sort of moral intractableness , which led Milton to sacrifice every practical or sentimental consideration to a high ideal of purity and truth , in private or public life . This latter trait , generally referred ...
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... poet's exuberant fancy had not veiled his figure in a radiant mist , which conceals the real Shelley as the Genevan habit conceals the real Milton . " 1 • Milton came from a family in which religious passion seems at first sight to run ...
... poet's exuberant fancy had not veiled his figure in a radiant mist , which conceals the real Shelley as the Genevan habit conceals the real Milton . " 1 • Milton came from a family in which religious passion seems at first sight to run ...
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