Seventeenth-century English Poetry: Modern Essays in CriticismWilliam R. Keast Oxford University Press, 1962 - 434 pages |
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... thou know ? Thou know'st thyself so little that thou knowst not How thou didst die , nor how thou wast begot . Thou neither know'st how thou at first camest in , Nor how thou took'st the poison of man's sin ; Nor dost thou though thou ...
... thou know ? Thou know'st thyself so little that thou knowst not How thou didst die , nor how thou wast begot . Thou neither know'st how thou at first camest in , Nor how thou took'st the poison of man's sin ; Nor dost thou though thou ...
Page 149
... thou art not soe , For , those , whom thou think'st , thou dost overthrow , Die not , poore death , nor yet canst thou kill mee . The opening lines of the elegy seem explicitly to answer this opening of the sonnet : Death I recant , and ...
... thou art not soe , For , those , whom thou think'st , thou dost overthrow , Die not , poore death , nor yet canst thou kill mee . The opening lines of the elegy seem explicitly to answer this opening of the sonnet : Death I recant , and ...
Page 198
... thou dar'st give her againe ; That whatsoever face thy fate puts on , Thou shrinke or start not , but be always one ; That thou thinke nothing great , but what is good , And from that thought strive to be understood . So , ' live so dead , ...
... thou dar'st give her againe ; That whatsoever face thy fate puts on , Thou shrinke or start not , but be always one ; That thou thinke nothing great , but what is good , And from that thought strive to be understood . So , ' live so dead , ...
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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