Seventeenth-century English Poetry: Modern Essays in CriticismWilliam R. Keast Oxford University Press, 1962 - 434 pages |
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Page 97
... less the very opposite of gay . It is as though Donne performed in deepest depression those gymnastics which are usually a sign of intellectual high spirits . He himself speaks of his " concupiscence of wit . " The hot , dark word is ...
... less the very opposite of gay . It is as though Donne performed in deepest depression those gymnastics which are usually a sign of intellectual high spirits . He himself speaks of his " concupiscence of wit . " The hot , dark word is ...
Page 107
... less " real " than theirs ; while it is obviously less real than the world of Homer , or Virgil , or Tolstoy . In one way , indeed , Donne's love poetry is less true than that of the Petrarchans , in so far as it largely omits the very ...
... less " real " than theirs ; while it is obviously less real than the world of Homer , or Virgil , or Tolstoy . In one way , indeed , Donne's love poetry is less true than that of the Petrarchans , in so far as it largely omits the very ...
Page 127
... less pure than the angel in so far as it can exist on earth and so enable a spirit to appear to men . A woman's love is only less pure than a man's in so far as it is focused upon a single object and does not continually reach out ...
... less pure than the angel in so far as it can exist on earth and so enable a spirit to appear to men . A woman's love is only less pure than a man's in so far as it is focused upon a single object and does not continually reach out ...
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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