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... linked with duplicity and violent extremes of temperature and behavior . The white waste- land of the snowy plains of Astracan recalls the white unreach- able towers of Cathay , the icy river that cuts us off from the dream of ...
... linked with duplicity and violent extremes of temperature and behavior . The white waste- land of the snowy plains of Astracan recalls the white unreach- able towers of Cathay , the icy river that cuts us off from the dream of ...
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... linked details , and it is also a return , a circling back , to the images of the spherical earth , the circling Great Year , which opened this sequence . There is verbal reitera- tion , " orbs / Of circuit . . . Orb within orb , " as ...
... linked details , and it is also a return , a circling back , to the images of the spherical earth , the circling Great Year , which opened this sequence . There is verbal reitera- tion , " orbs / Of circuit . . . Orb within orb , " as ...
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... linked and hierarchically limited by the blood - bond of the national family . Royalist poets in seeking images extreme enough to give form to their sense of shock at the monstrous nature of the crime reached out for ideas like ...
... linked and hierarchically limited by the blood - bond of the national family . Royalist poets in seeking images extreme enough to give form to their sense of shock at the monstrous nature of the crime reached out for ideas like ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Kings of This World | 9 |
Sultan and Barbarian | 51 |
Copyright | |
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