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Page 176
... lines giving the impression of a whole landscape in snow and driving wind , he moves at once , in the third short line , to the contrasting image of himself huddled over the fire . The transition is most cunningly done , and shows how ...
... lines giving the impression of a whole landscape in snow and driving wind , he moves at once , in the third short line , to the contrasting image of himself huddled over the fire . The transition is most cunningly done , and shows how ...
Page 286
... lines which would have expressed the thought conveyed by the lines about the poppies and the borealis . The point here is not , surely , that the poet is introducing thought and must therefore employ standard English , but that he is ...
... lines which would have expressed the thought conveyed by the lines about the poppies and the borealis . The point here is not , surely , that the poet is introducing thought and must therefore employ standard English , but that he is ...
Page 339
... line , where the repetition of the rhyme of the fourth and second lines turns the stanza over , as it were , to start on a new tack ; the second rhyming word of the first part of the verse becomes the first rhyming word of the second ...
... line , where the repetition of the rhyme of the fourth and second lines turns the stanza over , as it were , to start on a new tack ; the second rhyming word of the first part of the verse becomes the first rhyming word of the second ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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