Selected PoemsHeinemann, 1960 - 152 pages |
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Page xii
... poetic saint . All in all , it is easy to see him , when his life and his work are both taken into account , as the most extraordinary and colourful of all English poets . Shelley as a life and a legend , has become , to some one of the ...
... poetic saint . All in all , it is easy to see him , when his life and his work are both taken into account , as the most extraordinary and colourful of all English poets . Shelley as a life and a legend , has become , to some one of the ...
Page xiv
... poetic history encouraged us to assume were absent , a genuinely poetic mental life , controlling and manoeuvring material much more varied than the steps of any argument , and doing so with an intricacy and dexterity which few English ...
... poetic history encouraged us to assume were absent , a genuinely poetic mental life , controlling and manoeuvring material much more varied than the steps of any argument , and doing so with an intricacy and dexterity which few English ...
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... Poet's food is love and fame : If in this wide world of care Poets could but find the same With as little toil as they , Would they ever change their hue As the light chameleons do , Suiting it to every ray Twenty times a day ? Poets ...
... Poet's food is love and fame : If in this wide world of care Poets could but find the same With as little toil as they , Would they ever change their hue As the light chameleons do , Suiting it to every ray Twenty times a day ? Poets ...
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