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... achieved not by God's intervention or even by a reverent noting of God's Work , but by willed introspection . Again ... achieve this end is striking : he showed himself in this poem to be a rhetorical poet of great skill and originality ...
... achieved not by God's intervention or even by a reverent noting of God's Work , but by willed introspection . Again ... achieve this end is striking : he showed himself in this poem to be a rhetorical poet of great skill and originality ...
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... achieve . If the imagination fails - for , like Coleridge yet dif- ferently , Stevens believed that ' we receive but what we give'— then , like Coleridge , he has his moods of dejection : Stevens's equivalent of Coleridge's ' Dejection ...
... achieve . If the imagination fails - for , like Coleridge yet dif- ferently , Stevens believed that ' we receive but what we give'— then , like Coleridge , he has his moods of dejection : Stevens's equivalent of Coleridge's ' Dejection ...
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... achieve by sheer intensity of vision and power of expression some kind of tertium quid in which man and Nature , the ... achieved this ; but the terrifying neutrality of the geological world comes over more strongly . We must be humble ...
... achieve by sheer intensity of vision and power of expression some kind of tertium quid in which man and Nature , the ... achieved this ; but the terrifying neutrality of the geological world comes over more strongly . We must be humble ...
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God Defended | 26 |
God and Nature | 50 |
Poetic Attitudes to God from the Psalms to Dante | 69 |
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