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... nature , for there is no truth ; there is no art , for there is nothing new . Its form is that of a pastoral , easy , vulgar , and therefore disgusting whatever images it can supply , are long ago exhausted , and its inherent ...
... nature , for there is no truth ; there is no art , for there is nothing new . Its form is that of a pastoral , easy , vulgar , and therefore disgusting whatever images it can supply , are long ago exhausted , and its inherent ...
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... nature and objectives , MAN have been formulated , and although no single all- embracing and wholly satisfactory definition exists , much can be learnt by an examination of the theories put forward by the great poets and critics . To ...
... nature and objectives , MAN have been formulated , and although no single all- embracing and wholly satisfactory definition exists , much can be learnt by an examination of the theories put forward by the great poets and critics . To ...
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... Nature , there is a passionate love of her beauty , and a sensitive apprehension of her awe and wonder , that is wholly lacking in the neo - Classicals . ( 2 ) They rejected rules whether drawn from ancient or from modern writers , and ...
... Nature , there is a passionate love of her beauty , and a sensitive apprehension of her awe and wonder , that is wholly lacking in the neo - Classicals . ( 2 ) They rejected rules whether drawn from ancient or from modern writers , and ...
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A. E. Housman accent adjectives appeal beauty blank verse blow Bonny Dundee brave CHAPTER clear Coleridge colour couplet Danny Deever dark death delight diction doth duple Echoing Green emotions English example expression eyes final judgement flowers following passages free verse give green hand hath heart heaven iambic pentameters imagery images imagination Johnson judge Keats light look Lyrical melody metre metrical Milton mind modern moon mountains nature neo-Classical never night o'er Paradise Lost pattern Petrarcan pleasure poem poet poet's attitude poet's purpose prosody reader rest restricted poetry rhythmic rime-scheme rimes Romantics round scansion sense sestet Shakespeare Shakespearian silver sing skies song sonnet soul sound Spring sprung rhythm stanzas statement stress style sweet syllables system of scansion T. S. Eliot thee theme things thou thought truth versification whole wind Winter's Tale words Wordsworth write