To the Palace of Wisdom: Studies in Order and Energy from Dryden to BlakeAnchor Books, 1964 - 468 pages |
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Page 138
... movement and the patterned field , for each local movement both governs and is governed by all others . The order Pope creates is neither mechanical nor im- posed ; all mass , one might say , is transformed to energy . The first epistle ...
... movement and the patterned field , for each local movement both governs and is governed by all others . The order Pope creates is neither mechanical nor im- posed ; all mass , one might say , is transformed to energy . The first epistle ...
Page 142
... movement of the poem is the most sharply hortatory . Man must be made to relinquish what by now he cannot help but ... movement from external to internal completes the movement we have seen throughout the Essay : from the time- bound and ...
... movement of the poem is the most sharply hortatory . Man must be made to relinquish what by now he cannot help but ... movement from external to internal completes the movement we have seen throughout the Essay : from the time- bound and ...
Page 357
... movement he sees . All his best landscapes involve tension and movement . It may be the tension of anticipation , as all nature waits for the descent of rain or the breaking of a storm . It may be the movement into the deep recesses of ...
... movement he sees . All his best landscapes involve tension and movement . It may be the tension of anticipation , as all nature waits for the descent of rain or the breaking of a storm . It may be the movement into the deep recesses of ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
DRYDEN AND DIALECTIC | 28 |
ORDER AND LIBERTY | 79 |
Copyright | |
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