The English Poets, Volume 5Thomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1918 - English poetry |
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... poet , to whose mighty heart ' ( from Resignation ) ' He spoke ; and as he ceased , he wept aloud ' ( from Sohrab and Rustum ) • The Forsaken Merman Austerity of Poetry To Marguerite The Strayed Reveller ( from Empedocles on Etna ) ...
... poet , to whose mighty heart ' ( from Resignation ) ' He spoke ; and as he ceased , he wept aloud ' ( from Sohrab and Rustum ) • The Forsaken Merman Austerity of Poetry To Marguerite The Strayed Reveller ( from Empedocles on Etna ) ...
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Thomas Humphry Ward. PAGE Extracts from The Angel in the House : The Poet's Confidence Love at Large The Lover . The Revelation The Amaranth Love's Perversity Extract from Amelia Extracts from The Unknown Eros : Winter The Azalea ...
Thomas Humphry Ward. PAGE Extracts from The Angel in the House : The Poet's Confidence Love at Large The Lover . The Revelation The Amaranth Love's Perversity Extract from Amelia Extracts from The Unknown Eros : Winter The Azalea ...
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... poetic age . Will these things loom larger in the distance , or when Prince Posterity comes to be King , will his royal eye be caught first by uncouth forms , by obscurities and weary prolixities ? We cannot tell whether our poet will ...
... poetic age . Will these things loom larger in the distance , or when Prince Posterity comes to be King , will his royal eye be caught first by uncouth forms , by obscurities and weary prolixities ? We cannot tell whether our poet will ...
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... poet who had no sense of poetic form , who could not sing . Browning was a poet but not always a singer ; song was not to him the inevitable language , the supreme instinct . When he strains his metre by attempting to pack more meaning ...
... poet who had no sense of poetic form , who could not sing . Browning was a poet but not always a singer ; song was not to him the inevitable language , the supreme instinct . When he strains his metre by attempting to pack more meaning ...
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... poet who could not sing . Yet is it true that he frequently sacrificed sound to sense . This the plain person thinks right , but the poet knows or should know it to be wrong . And it did not even save him from obscurity . Such are his ...
... poet who could not sing . Yet is it true that he frequently sacrificed sound to sense . This the plain person thinks right , but the poet knows or should know it to be wrong . And it did not even save him from obscurity . Such are his ...
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