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... poem is the utterance of a single dramatic voice ; and except in those passages that contain apparent interruptions by Phoebus and St Peter to the swain's monologue , it clearly implies an audience that hears or overhears his words ...
... poem is the utterance of a single dramatic voice ; and except in those passages that contain apparent interruptions by Phoebus and St Peter to the swain's monologue , it clearly implies an audience that hears or overhears his words ...
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John P. Hardy. poem would not have been lost on those most involved in the real - life situation that provided its immediate occasion . While the poem is in some sense appropriately open - ended , with the stelli- fication of Belinda's ...
John P. Hardy. poem would not have been lost on those most involved in the real - life situation that provided its immediate occasion . While the poem is in some sense appropriately open - ended , with the stelli- fication of Belinda's ...
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... poem's contrast between country and city is rhetori- cal , with its own special validity and point . As poet Johnson shows good reason for depicting life in the country as a desirable and even necessary alternative to life in the city ...
... poem's contrast between country and city is rhetori- cal , with its own special validity and point . As poet Johnson shows good reason for depicting life in the country as a desirable and even necessary alternative to life in the city ...
Contents
Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
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