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Page xxvi
... THOUGHT Victorian poetry is in an unusual and even eminent degree a poetry of thought . Few complaints against its quality are more obstinate than the complaint that it is dragged down from the true heights of poetry by its load of ...
... THOUGHT Victorian poetry is in an unusual and even eminent degree a poetry of thought . Few complaints against its quality are more obstinate than the complaint that it is dragged down from the true heights of poetry by its load of ...
Page xxviii
... thought less noble , in feeling less in- tense than the stanza from Keats . Yet , as in the passages from Wordsworth and Browning , a differentiation is necessary . Arnold , like Browning , has not fused thought and feeling ; it is ...
... thought less noble , in feeling less in- tense than the stanza from Keats . Yet , as in the passages from Wordsworth and Browning , a differentiation is necessary . Arnold , like Browning , has not fused thought and feeling ; it is ...
Page 132
... thought I had thought of old , And every evil deed I ever did , Awoke and cried , " This Quest is not for thee . " And lifting up mine eyes , I found myself Alone , and in a land of sand and thorns , And I was thirsty even unto death ...
... thought I had thought of old , And every evil deed I ever did , Awoke and cried , " This Quest is not for thee . " And lifting up mine eyes , I found myself Alone , and in a land of sand and thorns , And I was thirsty even unto death ...
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