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... poem which is central to the present topic and yet which is not usually interpreted in terms of it . This is Donne's Ecstasy , a metaphysical love poem indeed , but having as a first concern the mixed constitution of man . Here the ...
... poem which is central to the present topic and yet which is not usually interpreted in terms of it . This is Donne's Ecstasy , a metaphysical love poem indeed , but having as a first concern the mixed constitution of man . Here the ...
Page 98
... poem , but presumably the sight of Queen Elizabeth as the central point of the court's dance- pattern " in this our ... poem . It serves as pure didacticism , as perfect illustration of a general doctrine . Yet it draws poetic G ...
... poem , but presumably the sight of Queen Elizabeth as the central point of the court's dance- pattern " in this our ... poem . It serves as pure didacticism , as perfect illustration of a general doctrine . Yet it draws poetic G ...
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... poem exceptional to it . It is exactly the poem one would expect from the time ; and con- temporary readers , however stimulated , must have felt them- selves perfectly at home with it . Nevertheless it is a very queer poem , just as ...
... poem exceptional to it . It is exactly the poem one would expect from the time ; and con- temporary readers , however stimulated , must have felt them- selves perfectly at home with it . Nevertheless it is a very queer poem , just as ...
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