Samuel BeckettHarold Bloom Sixteen critical essays on the Elizabethan poet and his works. |
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Page 133
... gives the effect of an advance , for he has shifted attention from her garments and visual presence to her operations and inner nature . The paradoxes are interpreted by the preceding stanzas in such a way as to infold both the cyclical ...
... gives the effect of an advance , for he has shifted attention from her garments and visual presence to her operations and inner nature . The paradoxes are interpreted by the preceding stanzas in such a way as to infold both the cyclical ...
Page 246
... gives it a claim of comparison . For Astrophel resembled a shadow only in his ephemerality . So it is not the content of the figure ( the flower ) but rather its status as figure or shadow that gives it title to an admittedly far from ...
... gives it a claim of comparison . For Astrophel resembled a shadow only in his ephemerality . So it is not the content of the figure ( the flower ) but rather its status as figure or shadow that gives it title to an admittedly far from ...
Page 257
... gives way . Cowley used the alexandrine , later on , conspicuously to terminate strophes of his " Pindarick " odes , and from a remark by the poetaster Dogrel in his play The Guardian ( 1650 ) , in reference to one of his own lines of ...
... gives way . Cowley used the alexandrine , later on , conspicuously to terminate strophes of his " Pindarick " odes , and from a remark by the poetaster Dogrel in his play The Guardian ( 1650 ) , in reference to one of his own lines of ...
Contents
The Structure of Allegory in Books I and II | 41 |
Mutability and the Theme | 57 |
The Marriage of the Thames | 73 |
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