Reinterpretations: Essays on Poems by Milton, Pope and Johnson |
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... true symbols in the poems in the sense that both are contrasting tendencies to be found in every man . ' There are , however , other statements , scattered throughout various criticisms of the poems , which seem to me to suggest a ...
... true symbols in the poems in the sense that both are contrasting tendencies to be found in every man . ' There are , however , other statements , scattered throughout various criticisms of the poems , which seem to me to suggest a ...
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... true poet are the inspired guift of God rarely bestow'd . . . and are of power beside the office of a pulpit , to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of vertu , and publick civility , to allay the perturbations of the mind ...
... true poet are the inspired guift of God rarely bestow'd . . . and are of power beside the office of a pulpit , to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of vertu , and publick civility , to allay the perturbations of the mind ...
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... true that the whole poem , despite its originally favourable reception by the real - life counterpart of the heroine , ostensibly reflects a playfully condescending attitude towards women , the present tendency to regard Belinda in a ...
... true that the whole poem , despite its originally favourable reception by the real - life counterpart of the heroine , ostensibly reflects a playfully condescending attitude towards women , the present tendency to regard Belinda in a ...
Contents
Lycidas | 28 |
The Rape of the Lock | 50 |
An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 81 |
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