A Guide to English Literature: From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Cassell, 1962 A Russian couple wanted a child so much that they made one out of snow. |
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... described as ' mediocre ' by his Oxford editors , ' merely smooth and insignificant ' , and is compared unfavourably with ' the superb Elizabethan romanticism " of the poet Campian's treatment of the same theme . Others have referred to ...
... described as ' mediocre ' by his Oxford editors , ' merely smooth and insignificant ' , and is compared unfavourably with ' the superb Elizabethan romanticism " of the poet Campian's treatment of the same theme . Others have referred to ...
Page 134
... described as his ' neutral style ' accord well with contemporary preferences . ' Neutral ' though Herbert's style may be , he has one of the strongest poetic personalities in English . Devotional though his poetry is - and he certainly ...
... described as his ' neutral style ' accord well with contemporary preferences . ' Neutral ' though Herbert's style may be , he has one of the strongest poetic personalities in English . Devotional though his poetry is - and he certainly ...
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... described . But it is compared with the garden of Eden and hence represents symbolically the state of innocence , as Keats was much later to use autumn as a symbol of fruition and maturity . Philosophically the Garden is associated with ...
... described . But it is compared with the garden of Eden and hence represents symbolically the state of innocence , as Keats was much later to use autumn as a symbol of fruition and maturity . Philosophically the Garden is associated with ...
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