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... fact seems to run counter to what we experience in the real world : ' I have been young , and now am old ; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken , nor his seed begging bread . ' If Milton could have accepted this , he would not ...
... fact seems to run counter to what we experience in the real world : ' I have been young , and now am old ; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken , nor his seed begging bread . ' If Milton could have accepted this , he would not ...
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... fact , in the supposed fact ; it has attached its emotion to the fact , and now the fact is failing it . But for poetry the idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion , of divine illusion . Poetry attaches its emotion to the ...
... fact , in the supposed fact ; it has attached its emotion to the fact , and now the fact is failing it . But for poetry the idea is everything ; the rest is a world of illusion , of divine illusion . Poetry attaches its emotion to the ...
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... fact is that there are some issues to which we are so sensitive - perhaps with good reason — that when they are treated in ways repugnant to our own thought and feeling we can go no further with that literary work . I think we must all ...
... fact is that there are some issues to which we are so sensitive - perhaps with good reason — that when they are treated in ways repugnant to our own thought and feeling we can go no further with that literary work . I think we must all ...
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Adam Adam's antinomian argument argument from design Arnold beauty belief biblical Book of Job Burns Burns's C.S. Lewis called Calvinist Canto century Christ Christian creed Dante Dante's darkness death deism divine doctrine earth Edwin Muir Eliphaz eternal evil experience expression faith Fall feeling glory God's goes grace hast Heaven Hebrew Hopkins Hugh MacDiarmid human imagery images imagination innocent James Thomson Job's justice kind language lecture literature Lord MacDiarmid man's meaning Milton mind mood moral moving mystery Nature never night orthodox Paradise Lost paradox perhaps poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise Psalm reader reality religion religious Sangschaw Satan Scottish seems sense sing speech stanza Stevens suffering suggest symbolic tells Tennyson thee theodicy theology things Thomson thou thought tion tradition truth universe Victorian poet vision visionary voice W.B. Yeats Wallace Stevens warl Whitman wicked words