The Groundwork of Criticism: Judging PoetryOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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... human characters and shows them in action . But the main purpose appears to be not to tell a story but to kill folly by ridicule . Futility , the futility of life and human institutions is a dominant note in much modern poetry ...
... human characters and shows them in action . But the main purpose appears to be not to tell a story but to kill folly by ridicule . Futility , the futility of life and human institutions is a dominant note in much modern poetry ...
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... human squander rucked thick , the leering teeth , and the set - smiling corpses , but the passages showing insight into the worst tragedy of the war's wreckage . " These are men the Dead have ravished ' , that is , forcibly deprived of ...
... human squander rucked thick , the leering teeth , and the set - smiling corpses , but the passages showing insight into the worst tragedy of the war's wreckage . " These are men the Dead have ravished ' , that is , forcibly deprived of ...
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... human sentiments . The metre is jog - trot , well adapted to the language , sentiment , and everyday associations of the poem . 3. Tennyson's poem is , in general , an invitation to a maid to descend , from the ' cold mountain tops ' of ...
... human sentiments . The metre is jog - trot , well adapted to the language , sentiment , and everyday associations of the poem . 3. Tennyson's poem is , in general , an invitation to a maid to descend , from the ' cold mountain tops ' of ...
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