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... verse , remote from the language of conversa- tion , and yet the structure of its sentences is simple , the vocabulary familiar , and there is none of the stiff elaborateness of Sidney's Arcadian prose . Berkenhead said of Fletcher in a ...
... verse , remote from the language of conversa- tion , and yet the structure of its sentences is simple , the vocabulary familiar , and there is none of the stiff elaborateness of Sidney's Arcadian prose . Berkenhead said of Fletcher in a ...
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... verse such as this to the more obviously patterned verse of the following impassioned rebuke . Even here , where there are many more rhetorical devices , there are no " savage meta- phors " and no " butchering of conceits " : Thou art ...
... verse such as this to the more obviously patterned verse of the following impassioned rebuke . Even here , where there are many more rhetorical devices , there are no " savage meta- phors " and no " butchering of conceits " : Thou art ...
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... verse for the expression of emotion is so important that it merits separate con- sideration . T. S. Eliot objects to the superficiality of this poetry : " Their words have often a network of tentacular roots reaching down to the deepest ...
... verse for the expression of emotion is so important that it merits separate con- sideration . T. S. Eliot objects to the superficiality of this poetry : " Their words have often a network of tentacular roots reaching down to the deepest ...
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