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Page 111
... turn in the sestet of the sonnet , that in spite of this each dawn brings a reminder of the freshness and love of the first creation . This is a kind of religious poetry that is , as it were , fought for and not easily won . As the ...
... turn in the sestet of the sonnet , that in spite of this each dawn brings a reminder of the freshness and love of the first creation . This is a kind of religious poetry that is , as it were , fought for and not easily won . As the ...
Page 162
... turn to Wallace Stevens , who was born in 1879 and died in 1955 . Steven's lack of any belief in the reality of God and in the effic- acy of religious myths in the modern world gave to his view of the role of poetry and of the poetic ...
... turn to Wallace Stevens , who was born in 1879 and died in 1955 . Steven's lack of any belief in the reality of God and in the effic- acy of religious myths in the modern world gave to his view of the role of poetry and of the poetic ...
Page 177
... turning - point in life , this was my turning- point ; since when my past life came alive in me after lying for so long , a dead weight , my actual life came alive too as that new life passed into it ; for it was new , though old ...
... turning - point in life , this was my turning- point ; since when my past life came alive in me after lying for so long , a dead weight , my actual life came alive too as that new life passed into it ; for it was new , though old ...
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