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... St Peter to the swain's monologue , it clearly implies an audience that hears or overhears his words . This is not just an audience of ' oaks and rills ' — though the pathetic fallacy of the pastoral mode imparts to such details of the ...
... St Peter to the swain's monologue , it clearly implies an audience that hears or overhears his words . This is not just an audience of ' oaks and rills ' — though the pathetic fallacy of the pastoral mode imparts to such details of the ...
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... St Peter passage is obviously essential to the dramatic structure of the poem . Yet the large majority of the poem's recent critics have inter- preted St Peter's message as even less optimistic than Phoebus's . According to Cleanth ...
... St Peter passage is obviously essential to the dramatic structure of the poem . Yet the large majority of the poem's recent critics have inter- preted St Peter's message as even less optimistic than Phoebus's . According to Cleanth ...
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... St Peter's speech ' offers nothing to assuage grief for the loss of Lycidas , and nothing to suggest any ultimate ... St Peter's denunciation of the corrupt clergy makes plain his very different assessment of Lycidas's brief but ...
... St Peter's speech ' offers nothing to assuage grief for the loss of Lycidas , and nothing to suggest any ultimate ... St Peter's denunciation of the corrupt clergy makes plain his very different assessment of Lycidas's brief but ...
Contents
Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
Copyright | |
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