Reinterpretations: Essays on Poems by Milton, Pope and Johnson |
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... dream ' . That this is to be interpreted as a ' dream ' of poetic inspiration will be suggested later . What is reminiscent of the pastoral convention in Il Penseroso can largely be explained by the traditional association of poet and ...
... dream ' . That this is to be interpreted as a ' dream ' of poetic inspiration will be suggested later . What is reminiscent of the pastoral convention in Il Penseroso can largely be explained by the traditional association of poet and ...
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... dream On summer eves by haunted stream ; ( L'Allegro , 129–30 ) ... Entice the dewy - feathered Sleep ; And let some strange mysterious dream , Wave at his wings in airy stream , Of lively portraiture displayed , Softly on my eyelids ...
... dream On summer eves by haunted stream ; ( L'Allegro , 129–30 ) ... Entice the dewy - feathered Sleep ; And let some strange mysterious dream , Wave at his wings in airy stream , Of lively portraiture displayed , Softly on my eyelids ...
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... dream ' motif in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso is that the moods banished in the introductory stanzas are both alien or even hostile to those ' dreams ' or moods of poetic creativity with which the poems proper are concerned . Atrabilious ...
... dream ' motif in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso is that the moods banished in the introductory stanzas are both alien or even hostile to those ' dreams ' or moods of poetic creativity with which the poems proper are concerned . Atrabilious ...
Contents
Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
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