Seventeenth-century English Poetry: Modern Essays in CriticismWilliam R. Keast Oxford University Press, 1962 - 434 pages |
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Page 265
... perhaps aims at an effect perfectly proper , even sublime , in itself , but of which he falls lamentably short ; or he perhaps strives to dazzle the reader with pyrotechnics either irrelevant to the form or improper to the nature of ...
... perhaps aims at an effect perfectly proper , even sublime , in itself , but of which he falls lamentably short ; or he perhaps strives to dazzle the reader with pyrotechnics either irrelevant to the form or improper to the nature of ...
Page 266
... perhaps likely to insist upon some evidence of the metaphysical temperament ; the cold raptures of Cowley often seem ... perhaps significant that the relatively small volume of Donne's sacred verse has been more widely influential ...
... perhaps likely to insist upon some evidence of the metaphysical temperament ; the cold raptures of Cowley often seem ... perhaps significant that the relatively small volume of Donne's sacred verse has been more widely influential ...
Page 339
... Perhaps it was . But in Sir Richard Fanshawe's translation of Horace's Odes ( Selected Parts of Horace . . . Now newly put into English , London , 1652 ) the " Horatian Ode " stanza is used several times . If Marvell invented the stanza ...
... Perhaps it was . But in Sir Richard Fanshawe's translation of Horace's Odes ( Selected Parts of Horace . . . Now newly put into English , London , 1652 ) the " Horatian Ode " stanza is used several times . If Marvell invented the stanza ...
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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