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... past accord- ing to established requirements . Like the higher forms of ritual art , this small volume attempts a reconsideration , a reassimila- tion , and , in a sense , a reliving of the past . My contention is that William Cullen ...
... past accord- ing to established requirements . Like the higher forms of ritual art , this small volume attempts a reconsideration , a reassimila- tion , and , in a sense , a reliving of the past . My contention is that William Cullen ...
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... past gradually immerse the poet in less sanguine reflections on human progress : Thus change the forms of being . Thus arise Races of living things , glorious in strength , And perish , as the quickening breath of God Fills them , or is ...
... past gradually immerse the poet in less sanguine reflections on human progress : Thus change the forms of being . Thus arise Races of living things , glorious in strength , And perish , as the quickening breath of God Fills them , or is ...
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... past wars , injustices , bloodshed , and terror . Even the " glens and groves " now " murmur of guilty force and treachery . " The poet's conscious- ness of the past merges with his memories of personal grief . He attempts to identify ...
... past wars , injustices , bloodshed , and terror . Even the " glens and groves " now " murmur of guilty force and treachery . " The poet's conscious- ness of the past merges with his memories of personal grief . He attempts to identify ...
Contents
Chronology | 13 |
The Poems of Nature | 39 |
The Poem of Death | 65 |
Copyright | |
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