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... resistance by refusing to separate the truth of the visionary from that of the man , or the truth of the self from that of the world in which it must , inevitably , live . If we can see An Essay on Man and The Dunciad as poems that ...
... resistance by refusing to separate the truth of the visionary from that of the man , or the truth of the self from that of the world in which it must , inevitably , live . If we can see An Essay on Man and The Dunciad as poems that ...
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... resistance to the schematic knowledge separating him from the world , a resistance dramatized throughout the poetry of the 1730s . From a historical standpoint , this was more than a personal problem ; the need for a justification of ...
... resistance to the schematic knowledge separating him from the world , a resistance dramatized throughout the poetry of the 1730s . From a historical standpoint , this was more than a personal problem ; the need for a justification of ...
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... resistance to abjuring it . As he wrote to Swift two months later : " Perhaps , to have a memory that retains the past scenes of our country and forgets the present , is the means to be happier and better contented . But , if the evil ...
... resistance to abjuring it . As he wrote to Swift two months later : " Perhaps , to have a memory that retains the past scenes of our country and forgets the present , is the means to be happier and better contented . But , if the evil ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Human Knowledge and Poetic Structure | 37 |
The Epistolary Pattern | 108 |
Copyright | |
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