Seventeenth-century English Poetry: Modern Essays in CriticismWilliam R. Keast Oxford University Press, 1962 - 434 pages |
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... beauty I did see , Which I desired , and got , ' twas but a dream of thee . In Aire and Angels : Twice or thrice had I loved thee , Before I knew thy face or name ; So in a voice , so in a shapelesse flame , Angells affect us oft , and ...
... beauty I did see , Which I desired , and got , ' twas but a dream of thee . In Aire and Angels : Twice or thrice had I loved thee , Before I knew thy face or name ; So in a voice , so in a shapelesse flame , Angells affect us oft , and ...
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... beauty finds for itself an expression which perfectly agrees with his ideal of art that this fusion takes place . The two become one and indivisible . To the romantic , beauty reveals itself in strangeness , in excess , and it tends to ...
... beauty finds for itself an expression which perfectly agrees with his ideal of art that this fusion takes place . The two become one and indivisible . To the romantic , beauty reveals itself in strangeness , in excess , and it tends to ...
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... beauty is a beauty of completion- “ it might be ” is beautiful only when it has become " it is . " And , because his ideal beauty is thus intimately linked with the creative act , where it finds adequate expression it does so in a ...
... beauty is a beauty of completion- “ it might be ” is beautiful only when it has become " it is . " And , because his ideal beauty is thus intimately linked with the creative act , where it finds adequate expression it does so in a ...
Contents
H J C GRIERSON Metaphysical Poetry 3 | 22 |
F R LEAVIS The Line of Wit | 31 |
HELEN GARDNER The Metaphysical Poets | 50 |
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