The Cambridge History of English Literature: The nineteenth century. ISir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller The University Press, 1915 - English literature |
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... beauty of the ' sea Cybele ' and the splendour of her historic past fired his imagination . More or less indifferent to the triumphs of Italian plastic and pictorial art , he was in full accord with what was best in Italian poetry . His ...
... beauty of the ' sea Cybele ' and the splendour of her historic past fired his imagination . More or less indifferent to the triumphs of Italian plastic and pictorial art , he was in full accord with what was best in Italian poetry . His ...
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... beauty ; no artifice of rhetoric mars the sincerity of the passion , and nowhere else does Byron come so near towards capturing the subtle cadence of the Christabel verse . In The Prisoner of Chillon , he advances still farther in the ...
... beauty ; no artifice of rhetoric mars the sincerity of the passion , and nowhere else does Byron come so near towards capturing the subtle cadence of the Christabel verse . In The Prisoner of Chillon , he advances still farther in the ...
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... beauty with which one of his lyrics opens is not sustained , the passion grows turbid and the thought passes from pure vision to turgid commonplace . Among the most impassioned of his love - lyrics is that entitled When we two parted ...
... beauty with which one of his lyrics opens is not sustained , the passion grows turbid and the thought passes from pure vision to turgid commonplace . Among the most impassioned of his love - lyrics is that entitled When we two parted ...
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... beauty , love , which enthralled the imagination of Byron and Shelley and Keats became , in their hands , anarchic and revolutionary , challenging the old order , breaking down its classifications and limits , yet , in the case of the ...
... beauty , love , which enthralled the imagination of Byron and Shelley and Keats became , in their hands , anarchic and revolutionary , challenging the old order , breaking down its classifications and limits , yet , in the case of the ...
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... beauty , as Wordsworth and Coleridge had been prophets of nature . But their vision of beauty was widely different . Shelley's vision is more metaphysical ; beauty , for him , is ' intel- lectual , ' a spirit living and working through ...
... beauty , as Wordsworth and Coleridge had been prophets of nature . But their vision of beauty was widely different . Shelley's vision is more metaphysical ; beauty , for him , is ' intel- lectual , ' a spirit living and working through ...
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