The Castle of Indolence, and Other PoemsUniversity of Kansas Press, 1961 - 222 pages |
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... stanzas is occasionally found , as in The Castle of Indolence , II . v - vii ; but such a grouping is exceptional , and we have stanza after stanza without marked archaism . The composite purpose of the poem , playful , descriptive ...
... stanzas is occasionally found , as in The Castle of Indolence , II . v - vii ; but such a grouping is exceptional , and we have stanza after stanza without marked archaism . The composite purpose of the poem , playful , descriptive ...
Page 26
... stanza extends the vision backward in time to the Golden Age . And then follows a stanza of great visual and spatial extension : Sometimes the Pencil , in cool airy Halls , Bade the gay Bloom of Vernal Landskips rise , Or Autumn's vary ...
... stanza extends the vision backward in time to the Golden Age . And then follows a stanza of great visual and spatial extension : Sometimes the Pencil , in cool airy Halls , Bade the gay Bloom of Vernal Landskips rise , Or Autumn's vary ...
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... stanza of 1740 : As the loud blast that tears thy skies , Serves but to root thy native oak ; Still more majestic shalt thou rise , From foreign , from domestic stroke . The last three stanzas of 1740 are replaced by two weak stanzas ...
... stanza of 1740 : As the loud blast that tears thy skies , Serves but to root thy native oak ; Still more majestic shalt thou rise , From foreign , from domestic stroke . The last three stanzas of 1740 are replaced by two weak stanzas ...
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allegorical Archimage Armstrong Arts and Industry Bard Beauty Bliss Bower Brentford Britannia British Canto Castle of Indolence deep delights Descartes dream Dunciad Earth effect eighteenth century elaborate enchanter English Harp Heart Heaven Hill Hughes Hypochondria Idless imitation inspired Introduction Isle James Thomson John John Conduitt John Hughes Knight of Arts landscape Landskips Liberty light lines Lucretius Luxborough Luxury Lycidas Lyttelton Mallet Milton Mind moral Murdoch Muse MUSIDORA Nature Nature's Newtonian nought Numbers o'er panegyric passage Peace philosophic Pleasure poet Poetry pour'd Power praise quoted reference retirement round rural Scene Seasons second edition Shade Shenstone shine Sir Isaac Newton Sleep soft Solitude song Soul sound Spenser Spenserian Spenserian stanzas Spirit stanza Streams sweet thee theme Thom Thomson's poem thou thro Title-page Toil Vale verse Virtue vision ween wild Wind words World Wretch xlviii