The Focal Word: An Introduction to Poetry |
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... vitality without control too often runs to the vices Blake himself detested - possessiveness , cruelty , tyranny . It is moral values , sensitively grasped in relation to personalities and situations , that control and concentrate vitality ...
... vitality without control too often runs to the vices Blake himself detested - possessiveness , cruelty , tyranny . It is moral values , sensitively grasped in relation to personalities and situations , that control and concentrate vitality ...
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... vitality in the blood has passed into the purer , more spiritual , mind , restoring its flagging vitality : this is a fresh and personal perception of life's flowing upward , of spirit's catching life from the tingling of the blood ...
... vitality in the blood has passed into the purer , more spiritual , mind , restoring its flagging vitality : this is a fresh and personal perception of life's flowing upward , of spirit's catching life from the tingling of the blood ...
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... vitality . But the force that travels along a fuse touches off an explosion : the flowering is a violent , explosive kind of vitality - exhausting , destructive , blasting the roots from which it grew . And so the rose is crooked , the ...
... vitality . But the force that travels along a fuse touches off an explosion : the flowering is a violent , explosive kind of vitality - exhausting , destructive , blasting the roots from which it grew . And so the rose is crooked , the ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
BEN JONSON Continued | 27 |
ROSALINDS MADRIGAL | 33 |
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