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Page 98
... poet , and the poet's distinctive function is to speak from intuition , as that of the scientist , antithetically opposed in method , is to deal only with demonstrable facts . That poetry and science may serve really complementary ends ...
... poet , and the poet's distinctive function is to speak from intuition , as that of the scientist , antithetically opposed in method , is to deal only with demonstrable facts . That poetry and science may serve really complementary ends ...
Page 317
... poet who is temperamentally a story - teller as well as a moralist- is usually struck on the tinder of narrative . But for his wish to be " useful " in propagating Calvinism , Cowper would have remained a merely " occasional " poet ...
... poet who is temperamentally a story - teller as well as a moralist- is usually struck on the tinder of narrative . But for his wish to be " useful " in propagating Calvinism , Cowper would have remained a merely " occasional " poet ...
Page 386
... ( poet's mother ) , 41 , 62 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 74 , 365 Cowper , Ashley ( poet's uncle ) , 85 , 90 , III , 135 Cowper , Elizabeth ( Lady Croft ) , 85 Cowper , Harriet . See Hesketh , Lady Cowper , Dr. John ( poet's father ) , 41 , 62 , 67 ...
... ( poet's mother ) , 41 , 62 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 74 , 365 Cowper , Ashley ( poet's uncle ) , 85 , 90 , III , 135 Cowper , Elizabeth ( Lady Croft ) , 85 Cowper , Harriet . See Hesketh , Lady Cowper , Dr. John ( poet's father ) , 41 , 62 , 67 ...
Contents
FOREWORD II | 11 |
AN EXTRAMUNDANE AND HIS WORLD | 34 |
THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL | 158 |
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