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... essay on Marcus Aurelius ( Essays in Criticism , 1865 ) , with which this sonnet is intimately related , is a review of Long's translation , which is highly praised . . . . In the essay , however , though the touchstone mood is not ...
... essay on Marcus Aurelius ( Essays in Criticism , 1865 ) , with which this sonnet is intimately related , is a review of Long's translation , which is highly praised . . . . In the essay , however , though the touchstone mood is not ...
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... essay on Keats , and although he deplores the poet's sensuousness he cannot but pay tribute to his spirit : ... the thing to be seized is , that Keats had flint and iron in him , that he had character.18 In the essay on Byron ( 1881 ) ...
... essay on Keats , and although he deplores the poet's sensuousness he cannot but pay tribute to his spirit : ... the thing to be seized is , that Keats had flint and iron in him , that he had character.18 In the essay on Byron ( 1881 ) ...
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... essay is almost entirely autobiographical ; Arnold is so repelled by the events of Shelley's brief and troubled ... essays and letters , he says , will eventually stand higher than his poetry . The last poet to whom Arnold attempts to ...
... essay is almost entirely autobiographical ; Arnold is so repelled by the events of Shelley's brief and troubled ... essays and letters , he says , will eventually stand higher than his poetry . The last poet to whom Arnold attempts to ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE Introduction | 13 |
The Pathos of Young Death | 34 |
The Manifold Sorrow of Man | 52 |
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