Seventeenth-century English Poetry: Modern Essays in CriticismWilliam R. Keast Oxford University Press, 1962 - 434 pages |
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Page 192
... Sometimes his poetry expresses a preconceived emotion ; sometimes it embodies a conception of beauty which is typically Elizabethan ; sometimes it employs the " idiom of wit . " But these are not intrinsic factors in his highest lyric ...
... Sometimes his poetry expresses a preconceived emotion ; sometimes it embodies a conception of beauty which is typically Elizabethan ; sometimes it employs the " idiom of wit . " But these are not intrinsic factors in his highest lyric ...
Page 268
... sometimes revolted and sometimes amused by Crashaw . One aspect of Crashaw's " bad taste " is the deliberate injection of a homely word or circumstance amid lofty spiritual reflections . His “ financial ” metaphors are one example ; he ...
... sometimes revolted and sometimes amused by Crashaw . One aspect of Crashaw's " bad taste " is the deliberate injection of a homely word or circumstance amid lofty spiritual reflections . His “ financial ” metaphors are one example ; he ...
Page 273
... sometimes contain much of the grotesque ( plebeian or vis- ceral ) , sometimes little , sometimes none at all . What they contain they subordinate to a purer harmony sometimes easily , sometimes with difficulty , sometimes only by ...
... sometimes contain much of the grotesque ( plebeian or vis- ceral ) , sometimes little , sometimes none at all . What they contain they subordinate to a purer harmony sometimes easily , sometimes with difficulty , sometimes only by ...
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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