A guide to English literature. 3. From Donne to MarvellBoris Ford Penguin Books, 1956 |
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Page 48
... style to the story of the Tempta- tion ; his verse has a warmer quality and a fondness for paradoxical wit that connect him with such Catholic poets as the Elizabethan Southwell and the Caroline Crashaw . The Fletchers form an import ...
... style to the story of the Tempta- tion ; his verse has a warmer quality and a fondness for paradoxical wit that connect him with such Catholic poets as the Elizabethan Southwell and the Caroline Crashaw . The Fletchers form an import ...
Page 68
... Style is emerging , what Tennyson called Milton's ' organ voice ' , which carries on through the eloquence of the sonnets to become the epic manner of Paradise Lost . The great power of this style is an incantatory grandeur and nobility ...
... Style is emerging , what Tennyson called Milton's ' organ voice ' , which carries on through the eloquence of the sonnets to become the epic manner of Paradise Lost . The great power of this style is an incantatory grandeur and nobility ...
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... style . Jonson himself cultivates style deliberately : ' No matter how slow the style be at first , so it be laboured and accurate . ' He is no enemy of inspiration , provided it is genuine , but he is an enemy of facility . Care and ...
... style . Jonson himself cultivates style deliberately : ' No matter how slow the style be at first , so it be laboured and accurate . ' He is no enemy of inspiration , provided it is genuine , but he is an enemy of facility . Care and ...
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