Byron: Lyric and romanceBritish Council, 1970 |
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... structure , and that this structure may be called Heracleitan . The key to the whole poem lies in Heracleitus ' On the Universe , XXV : ' Fire lives the death of air , and air lives the death of fire ; water lives the death of earth ...
... structure , and that this structure may be called Heracleitan . The key to the whole poem lies in Heracleitus ' On the Universe , XXV : ' Fire lives the death of air , and air lives the death of fire ; water lives the death of earth ...
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... structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me , and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times , when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles , Where ...
... structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me , and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times , when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles , Where ...
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... structures ... . ' ( clvi ) ) , enters Byron's verse for the first time , for Canto I gives us nothing , and Canto II presents structures which , being Greek , are conceived of in existential terms transcending those of art , and which ...
... structures ... . ' ( clvi ) ) , enters Byron's verse for the first time , for Canto I gives us nothing , and Canto II presents structures which , being Greek , are conceived of in existential terms transcending those of art , and which ...
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