Twayne's English Authors Series, Volume 115Twayne Publishers, 1972 |
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Page 48
... reader makes no mistake that a persona is involved , Cowley emphasizes the poetic " mask " ; “ he [ the poet ] may be in his own practice and disposition a Philos- opher , nay a Stoick , and yet speak sometimes with the softness of an ...
... reader makes no mistake that a persona is involved , Cowley emphasizes the poetic " mask " ; “ he [ the poet ] may be in his own practice and disposition a Philos- opher , nay a Stoick , and yet speak sometimes with the softness of an ...
Page 61
... reader at a gaze . So wild and ungovernable a poet cannot be translated literally , his genius is too strong to bear a chain , and Samson - like he shakes it off . A genius so elevated and unconfined as Mr. Cowley's was but necessary to ...
... reader at a gaze . So wild and ungovernable a poet cannot be translated literally , his genius is too strong to bear a chain , and Samson - like he shakes it off . A genius so elevated and unconfined as Mr. Cowley's was but necessary to ...
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... Reader . 2nd ed . London : Chatto and Windus , 1962. An argument that Paradise Lost must be read in an historical context , for those " con- temporary " attitudes must be part of what a reader brings to the poem if he is to understand ...
... Reader . 2nd ed . London : Chatto and Windus , 1962. An argument that Paradise Lost must be read in an historical context , for those " con- temporary " attitudes must be part of what a reader brings to the poem if he is to understand ...
Contents
Preface | 11 |
The Muses Hannibal | 34 |
The great Methusalem of Love | 47 |
Copyright | |
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