Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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... poet's lips . More than mere worldly wisdom do we find in poetry . The poets have been the interpreters between man and nature , between the world visible and invisible . Nowadays most people think they need no interpreter , that life ...
... poet's lips . More than mere worldly wisdom do we find in poetry . The poets have been the interpreters between man and nature , between the world visible and invisible . Nowadays most people think they need no interpreter , that life ...
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... poet was allowed to return to London , where he eschewed politics and lived in peace until his death in 1674 . " Paradise Lost " Shortly before the Restoration in 1660 , Milton commenced the great epic which was to make his name ...
... poet was allowed to return to London , where he eschewed politics and lived in peace until his death in 1674 . " Paradise Lost " Shortly before the Restoration in 1660 , Milton commenced the great epic which was to make his name ...
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... Poet It is fitting that the two " golden " epochs of English history , the Elizabethan age and the Victorian age , should be associ- ated with , and as it were represented by , two such glorious poets as Shakspere and Tennyson ; and it ...
... Poet It is fitting that the two " golden " epochs of English history , the Elizabethan age and the Victorian age , should be associ- ated with , and as it were represented by , two such glorious poets as Shakspere and Tennyson ; and it ...
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