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... perfect in the little orison to Saint Ben ? You may prefer Milton's manner , but then you may , with equal reason ... song , greater , too , than the poet's own elegy . There is an explanation . Of all the energies of man , that which I will ...
... perfect in the little orison to Saint Ben ? You may prefer Milton's manner , but then you may , with equal reason ... song , greater , too , than the poet's own elegy . There is an explanation . Of all the energies of man , that which I will ...
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... perfectly , but also the spectacle of a great number of perfectly realised visions being related to each other with ... song in the record of human activity . In effect , Milton besides being a poet , which is the greatest of all ...
... perfectly , but also the spectacle of a great number of perfectly realised visions being related to each other with ... song in the record of human activity . In effect , Milton besides being a poet , which is the greatest of all ...
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... songs , even perfect songs , can claim a greater distinction than a great man who is not a poet ? Let me say , once for all , that I do think so . To have written one perfect song is to have given witness and the only kind of witness ...
... songs , even perfect songs , can claim a greater distinction than a great man who is not a poet ? Let me say , once for all , that I do think so . To have written one perfect song is to have given witness and the only kind of witness ...
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activity admirable æsthetic altars answer BALLAD BY FRANK beauty best order best words Blake's Cæsar Caliban's chosen CLEOPATRA CLOWN co-ordinating energy commonly delight of poetry devil distinction dramatic poetry ecstasy essential difference experience farewell FIVE JOHN STREET free verse give Golden lads Heraclitus highest HISTORY By R. H. human voice imaginative intellectual control intensity JOHN DRINKWATER LONDON judgment Keats Keats's kinds of poetry less Lycidas LYRIC BY JOHN lyric poetry MARTIN SECKER NUMBER material mean Milton mind musician narrative poetry NUMBER FIVE JOHN Paradise Lost perception perfect song perfectly realised pleasure poet's poetic drama poetic emotion poetic mood praise Prythee pure poetic energy purpose quicken rarest reason Ruskin short poems Show thee significance sing speak of lyric spoken stanzas strictly subject-matter Suckling Suckling's sympathy thing Thou Tom Jones Unto This Last verbal rhythms verse vision wholly Wither witness worm