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... reader should sense that this sentence is less well written , although the words are those of the original . Its tone is matter - of - fact : the mystery and the suspense con- tained in Coleridge's version are absent here . The poet ...
... reader should sense that this sentence is less well written , although the words are those of the original . Its tone is matter - of - fact : the mystery and the suspense con- tained in Coleridge's version are absent here . The poet ...
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... reader . Tennyson might have written , in " The Charge of the Light Brigade , " There were cannon to right of them ... readers to the battlefield , and give them the thunder and echoes of the cannons themselves . Cannon to right of them ...
... reader . Tennyson might have written , in " The Charge of the Light Brigade , " There were cannon to right of them ... readers to the battlefield , and give them the thunder and echoes of the cannons themselves . Cannon to right of them ...
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... reader a sense of completion , of fulfillment . Probably few readers today have perused the whole of Paradise Lost . The mighty drama and the overwhelming descriptions of the first two books are succeeded in the third by the theo ...
... reader a sense of completion , of fulfillment . Probably few readers today have perused the whole of Paradise Lost . The mighty drama and the overwhelming descriptions of the first two books are succeeded in the third by the theo ...
Contents
ENRICHMENT | 16 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 33 |
THE MECHANICS OF POETRY | 49 |
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