The Groundwork of Criticism: Judging PoetryOxford University Press, 1947 - 175 pages |
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... images . Now consider the passage in Coriolanus in which the envious Brutus describes to his fellow tribune Sicinius the popular reception given to the victorious Roman general Coriolanus . All tongues speak of him , and the bleared ...
... images . Now consider the passage in Coriolanus in which the envious Brutus describes to his fellow tribune Sicinius the popular reception given to the victorious Roman general Coriolanus . All tongues speak of him , and the bleared ...
Page 79
... images full of delicate fancy . The simile of the Nereides , with the amplification ' so many mermaids ' , suggests the sinuous charm of the Queen's female attendants , and the following phrase ' made their bends adornings ' conveys an ...
... images full of delicate fancy . The simile of the Nereides , with the amplification ' so many mermaids ' , suggests the sinuous charm of the Queen's female attendants , and the following phrase ' made their bends adornings ' conveys an ...
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... images of blood , spattered brains , morasses of mashed flesh , slobbering man- made imbeciles , leering distortions of God's likeness . The mere recital of crude horrors would inevitably pall . Owen has saved his poem from this by an ...
... images of blood , spattered brains , morasses of mashed flesh , slobbering man- made imbeciles , leering distortions of God's likeness . The mere recital of crude horrors would inevitably pall . Owen has saved his poem from this by an ...
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