Seventeenth-century English Poetry: Modern Essays in CriticismWilliam R. Keast Oxford University Press, 1962 - 434 pages |
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... important sense . And it is not any eccentricity or defiant audacity that makes the effect here so immediate , but rather an irre- sistible rightness . With all that has been written of late about Donne it is still , per- haps , not ...
... important sense . And it is not any eccentricity or defiant audacity that makes the effect here so immediate , but rather an irre- sistible rightness . With all that has been written of late about Donne it is still , per- haps , not ...
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... important character- istics in common . They were - to begin with an important fact which has received too little attention - they were both , in a sense , coterie- poets , poets who made their initial impact not upon the common reader ...
... important character- istics in common . They were - to begin with an important fact which has received too little attention - they were both , in a sense , coterie- poets , poets who made their initial impact not upon the common reader ...
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... important , feelings and habits which , with all their imperfections , were civilized in the narrower artistic sense , and also in the wider sense of having a foundation of social justice . This world provided Jonson with his larger ...
... important , feelings and habits which , with all their imperfections , were civilized in the narrower artistic sense , and also in the wider sense of having a foundation of social justice . This world provided Jonson with his larger ...
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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