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Page 29
... sense of this tact . Periphrasis leads to emblem and conceit , in which abstracts are given the power to act as in a line such as ' And all the pavement streamed with massacre ' in ' The Last Tournament ' . In this sense it is close to ...
... sense of this tact . Periphrasis leads to emblem and conceit , in which abstracts are given the power to act as in a line such as ' And all the pavement streamed with massacre ' in ' The Last Tournament ' . In this sense it is close to ...
Page 47
... sense are in their nature provisional and deviant , even though an auditor might be able to guess the direction a thought is going to take and make sense of the discontinuities . The final stanza of ' Count Gismond ' mimics the ...
... sense are in their nature provisional and deviant , even though an auditor might be able to guess the direction a thought is going to take and make sense of the discontinuities . The final stanza of ' Count Gismond ' mimics the ...
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... sense of the fraud that has been perpetrated on her . Patmore's poetry of domestic life is like Tennyson's in many respects , although the unofficial war between the aristocracy and the middle class is not a preoccupation for him . But ...
... sense of the fraud that has been perpetrated on her . Patmore's poetry of domestic life is like Tennyson's in many respects , although the unofficial war between the aristocracy and the middle class is not a preoccupation for him . But ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Image of the Poet and the Function | 11 |
The Diction of Victorian Poetry | 26 |
Copyright | |
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