Imagination and Power: A Study of Poetry on Public ThemesChatto & Windus, 1971 - 232 sider Discusses political poetry and the themes of power in English poetry. |
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... trouble ; for them absolute power was a magnificent enough idea to hold the atten- tion for several hours , and it was for the Gossons and Sidneys to worry out the morality of the thing . But they were Christians , and they must have ...
... trouble ; for them absolute power was a magnificent enough idea to hold the atten- tion for several hours , and it was for the Gossons and Sidneys to worry out the morality of the thing . But they were Christians , and they must have ...
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... trouble the delicate balances of public life , and a ' noble memory ' seems to say both that he should be remembered for being noble and that his nobility will ennoble those who do remember him so . With the life safely gone out of him ...
... trouble the delicate balances of public life , and a ' noble memory ' seems to say both that he should be remembered for being noble and that his nobility will ennoble those who do remember him so . With the life safely gone out of him ...
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... trouble believing that someone who lived before our own dark times can mean it when he reports that life is full of vileness , that the integrity of ' spirit ' is usually a hoax or a tragic illusion , that the centre of most lives is an ...
... trouble believing that someone who lived before our own dark times can mean it when he reports that life is full of vileness , that the integrity of ' spirit ' is usually a hoax or a tragic illusion , that the centre of most lives is an ...
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