'life is easy to observe from the outside, but not so much from within'
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Preston
'love involves as much suffering as it does joy'
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Viner
'Duffy's poetry is filled with lost loves and yearning for the past'
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Cash
'movement of time is responsible for radical change' and 'in need of comfort in a dark and potentially comfortless world'
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O'Keefe
'a concern for the way language can alienate'
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Heaney
'neither cynicism nor despair...but a more crystalline reality'
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Cox
'exploits social remoteness bu adopting a position of insightful superiority over his subjects' and 'uses nature...to discuss how pointless everything is'
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Motion
'Death...is an utterly comfortless blank' and 'Never achieves the complete calm success of love'
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Appleyard
'hopeless and inflexible pessimist'
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Ruskin
'irregular measure...is the chief calamity of modern poetry'
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Leith
'simplicity' and 'peculiar fantasia'
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Roe
'deceptive simplicity'
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Scholl
'the fallen or the forbidden'
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Gilbert and Gunbar
'a singer of renunciation'
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The Athenaeum
'The real nature out-of-doors'
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Norton
'an allegory against the pleasures of sinful love'
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Bocher
'Rossetti's love for God always trumps that of another Human'
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Stevenson
'the two sides to Rossetti...the sensuous and the ascetic'
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Sullivan
'ensnared by the fruitless cycles and self-contradictions of the natural world'
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
'love involves as much suffering as it does joy'
Back
Preston
Card 3
Front
'Duffy's poetry is filled with lost loves and yearning for the past'
Back
Card 4
Front
'movement of time is responsible for radical change' and 'in need of comfort in a dark and potentially comfortless world'
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