ShakespeareJ. Cape, 1961 - 448 pages |
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... verse in it is , to me , beyond belief . Much of that verse is a complete non sequitur from the verse of his final plays . I cannot conceive it developing out of the verse of The Tempest . And this is not merely a matter of much feeble ...
... verse in it is , to me , beyond belief . Much of that verse is a complete non sequitur from the verse of his final plays . I cannot conceive it developing out of the verse of The Tempest . And this is not merely a matter of much feeble ...
Page 14
... verse was the finest tribute ever paid to Shakespeare's sheer poetic power : unless , again , it be the final verse of Keats . He likewise passed under the spell of Shakespeare , yet turned to Milton for the pattern of his blank verse ...
... verse was the finest tribute ever paid to Shakespeare's sheer poetic power : unless , again , it be the final verse of Keats . He likewise passed under the spell of Shakespeare , yet turned to Milton for the pattern of his blank verse ...
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... verse on every appropriate occasion ; the other a simple and lovely periodic flow of verse , liquid and almost naive . To my sense this is the blank - verse of a poet who has learned to write blank - verse by speaking it , who therefore ...
... verse on every appropriate occasion ; the other a simple and lovely periodic flow of verse , liquid and almost naive . To my sense this is the blank - verse of a poet who has learned to write blank - verse by speaking it , who therefore ...
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