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Page 59
... feeling that Pope was speaking more from the centre of his being in the bitingly satiric elo- quence of the The Dunciad than in the neatly turned aphorisms of the Essay on Man . The picture of the end of civilization that concludes the ...
... feeling that Pope was speaking more from the centre of his being in the bitingly satiric elo- quence of the The Dunciad than in the neatly turned aphorisms of the Essay on Man . The picture of the end of civilization that concludes the ...
Page 93
... feeling for the symbolic values of simple things , and this line is a steady one in Victorian poetry . To name things precisely in order to set up a vague feeling of what they mean or suggest - it is exactly what we find in Edward Lear ...
... feeling for the symbolic values of simple things , and this line is a steady one in Victorian poetry . To name things precisely in order to set up a vague feeling of what they mean or suggest - it is exactly what we find in Edward Lear ...
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... feeling that that resuscitation was only a beginning . There remains the problem of communion between the Eternal Man in Proust and the Eternal Man in other people , and also their communion with the Eternal Itself . I should have a ...
... feeling that that resuscitation was only a beginning . There remains the problem of communion between the Eternal Man in Proust and the Eternal Man in other people , and also their communion with the Eternal Itself . I should have a ...
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Adam Adam's antinomian argument argument from design Arnold beauty belief 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 English eternal evil experience expression faith Fall feeling Gifford Lectures 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 poem poet poet's poetic poetry praise Psalm reader reality religion religious Sangschaw Satan Scotland 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 Whitman wicked words