A guide to English literature. 3. From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Penguin Books, 1956 |
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Page 55
... imagery drawn from common life or from intellectual pursuits and the psychological penetration . The effects of thus applying Metaphysical wit to religious subjects are almost as varied as in the love poetry : sometimes the ingenuity ...
... imagery drawn from common life or from intellectual pursuits and the psychological penetration . The effects of thus applying Metaphysical wit to religious subjects are almost as varied as in the love poetry : sometimes the ingenuity ...
Page 128
... imagery , for example , was subordinated to a purely intellectual purpose ; he deployed his various figures of speech , as we can see in The Advance- ment of Learning , not in order to express the whole range of his feelings about the ...
... imagery , for example , was subordinated to a purely intellectual purpose ; he deployed his various figures of speech , as we can see in The Advance- ment of Learning , not in order to express the whole range of his feelings about the ...
Page 195
... imagery of a sea - battle . Pleasure continues the contest with the temptations of sex , wealth , glory , and knowledge , and the Soul replies to these Mephistophelian baits with Socratic scepticism . The situation is dramatic , almost ...
... imagery of a sea - battle . Pleasure continues the contest with the temptations of sex , wealth , glory , and knowledge , and the Soul replies to these Mephistophelian baits with Socratic scepticism . The situation is dramatic , almost ...
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