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Page 70
... poet may stand in relation to God is the way of visionary experience . The poet may relate such an experience , in which he encounters either God or some symbolic representation of him . There is nothing visionary in Milton's ...
... poet may stand in relation to God is the way of visionary experience . The poet may relate such an experience , in which he encounters either God or some symbolic representation of him . There is nothing visionary in Milton's ...
Page 97
... poet's sense of loneliness and point back to his musing self ; the invitation to eat the lotos is always in the back- ground , if it is not in the foreground . How utterly different , in its use of language and in its placing of the poet's ...
... poet's sense of loneliness and point back to his musing self ; the invitation to eat the lotos is always in the back- ground , if it is not in the foreground . How utterly different , in its use of language and in its placing of the poet's ...
Page 98
... poet is aware of this ; the claim is made half - humorously , with a delib- erate air of careless exaggeration . What he means by these extraordinary remarks becomes clear as the poem proceeds ; the opening arrests and invites . Further ...
... poet is aware of this ; the claim is made half - humorously , with a delib- erate air of careless exaggeration . What he means by these extraordinary remarks becomes clear as the poem proceeds ; the opening arrests and invites . Further ...
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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