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Page 167
... grove and field ac- quire much more dramatic and active roles . When the world presses too heavily on the mind , the grove is a retreat : " Dear Child of Nature , let them rail ! / -There is a nest in a green dale , / A harbour and a ...
... grove and field ac- quire much more dramatic and active roles . When the world presses too heavily on the mind , the grove is a retreat : " Dear Child of Nature , let them rail ! / -There is a nest in a green dale , / A harbour and a ...
Page 169
... grove , thought flows peacefully in the bowl of the mind . It is the constant renewal of childhood's security , the reenergizing of the womb's silence , and the submission of the mind's hemispheres to sleep . " A grove there is ...
... grove , thought flows peacefully in the bowl of the mind . It is the constant renewal of childhood's security , the reenergizing of the womb's silence , and the submission of the mind's hemispheres to sleep . " A grove there is ...
Page 170
... grove is linked emotively to the cave . In this geography of spatial analogues , the hermit who walks in a bower will often make his home in a cave . Seeking a home in the houseless woods , the poet settles for a grove that shelters at ...
... grove is linked emotively to the cave . In this geography of spatial analogues , the hermit who walks in a bower will often make his home in a cave . Seeking a home in the houseless woods , the poet settles for a grove that shelters at ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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