Poetry Critic quotes :)

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  • Created on: 03-05-13 23:07
Wordsworth...
'Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings'
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Herbert JC Grierson...
Donne's 'eager to delight' with the 'fertility and audacity of his wit'
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Percy Shelley...
'Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted'
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John Carey...
His conversion of religion 'brought a perpetual worry about fidelity and falseness'
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Richard Gill...
In Donne's poetry there's a 'tension between the poet's concern for his beloved and a fascination with new ideas'
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Professor Mario Praz...smthing rather than...
Refer's to Donne's 'sensuous thought' (ie senses rather than intellect)
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Professor Mario Praz...creates a ...
he creates a 'argumentative, dramatic mood'
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Professor Mario Praz...in his holy sonnets..
there's an 'earnestness and intensity of religious thought'
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The famous metaphysical poet John Dryden...
He critises Donne for over using his wit and instead should 'entertain them with the softnesses of love''
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Herbert JC Grierson...love
His poetry has 'the joy of mutual and contented passion'
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Herbert JC Grierson...

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Donne's 'eager to delight' with the 'fertility and audacity of his wit'

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Percy Shelley...

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John Carey...

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Richard Gill...

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