Byron: Lyric and romanceBritish Council, 1970 |
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... cities of Canto I , unresonant , isolated by war from the total human context ( earth ringed like the scorpion by fire ) , via Greece's heroic earth , washed by compassionate seas but cityless and resonant only of the past , and via the ...
... cities of Canto I , unresonant , isolated by war from the total human context ( earth ringed like the scorpion by fire ) , via Greece's heroic earth , washed by compassionate seas but cityless and resonant only of the past , and via the ...
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... cities in this canto . Separated from Greece , where the sanctities are at their most elemental - the brilliance of light , the clarity of water , the starkness of mountain , the purity of air - Byron looks for , and finds , ' objective ...
... cities in this canto . Separated from Greece , where the sanctities are at their most elemental - the brilliance of light , the clarity of water , the starkness of mountain , the purity of air - Byron looks for , and finds , ' objective ...
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