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... imaginative will . One may wish to hesitate before claiming the phrase " inspired / By choice " as a cardi- nal imaginative principle ; but the inspiration that brings Wordsworth out of the sterility of versified platitudes comes from ...
... imaginative will . One may wish to hesitate before claiming the phrase " inspired / By choice " as a cardi- nal imaginative principle ; but the inspiration that brings Wordsworth out of the sterility of versified platitudes comes from ...
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... imaginative shapes in the sky seem to be given more certain habitation in the image of maternal nature , nature as ... imaginative possibility , one must not read the re- newal of the poem's vision as a definitive renewal of the poet's ...
... imaginative shapes in the sky seem to be given more certain habitation in the image of maternal nature , nature as ... imaginative possibility , one must not read the re- newal of the poem's vision as a definitive renewal of the poet's ...
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... imaginative moment as a moment of choice . At the same time , Satan , able to " look a while , " to pause over this gap in nature , asserts no instability , no teeter- ing between imaginative alternatives , but control over them . For ...
... imaginative moment as a moment of choice . At the same time , Satan , able to " look a while , " to pause over this gap in nature , asserts no instability , no teeter- ing between imaginative alternatives , but control over them . For ...
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abstraction abyss Adam Adam's alternatives angels arrest awareness Blake capture comes Comus confrontation consciousness create creation creative death distance divine dream earth echo emblem epic eternal Eve's experience expression fall fallen false surmise Faust fiction Geoffrey Hartman God's Harold Bloom heaven human Il Penseroso imaginative Keats Kierkegaard L'Allegro literary loss Lycidas ment metaphor Milton mind moral muse narrative nature ness Northrop Frye numbers Ode to Duty opening option Orpheus Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passage past pause Penseroso phrase poem poet poet's poetic voice poetry of choice Prelude present prophetic reader redemption relation relationship repetition revision romantic Satan seems self-consciousness sense Shelley Shelley's silence sing song sonnet space stand stasis T. S. Eliot takes temporal temptation thee things thir thou tion turn Urizen verse vision W. H. Auden Wallace Stevens word Wordsworth