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... high seriousness of Milton is unrelieved - I should prefer to say unenhanced - by any trace of the profound comedic ... high serious- ness , either he is not among the greatest poets - he is one , that is to say , with Chaucer and Burns ...
... high seriousness of Milton is unrelieved - I should prefer to say unenhanced - by any trace of the profound comedic ... high serious- ness , either he is not among the greatest poets - he is one , that is to say , with Chaucer and Burns ...
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... high seriousness , and which reflect , as do the touchstones , his characteristic moods . His in- stinctive desire , his intuitional impulse , is to regard poetry as a criticism of life of a certain kind ; one characterized by his own high ...
... high seriousness , and which reflect , as do the touchstones , his characteristic moods . His in- stinctive desire , his intuitional impulse , is to regard poetry as a criticism of life of a certain kind ; one characterized by his own high ...
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... high seriousness . " We are such stuff as dreams are made on . " This we might have been vouchsafed . " Seal up the ship - boy's eyes , and rock his brains . . . . " This we might have been spared . There is something to be said for high ...
... high seriousness . " We are such stuff as dreams are made on . " This we might have been vouchsafed . " Seal up the ship - boy's eyes , and rock his brains . . . . " This we might have been spared . There is something to be said for high ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE Introduction | 13 |
The Pathos of Young Death | 34 |
The Manifold Sorrow of Man | 52 |
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