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Page 78
... Donne to ' amalgamate disparate experience ' , and see it whole . In fact , we can see Eliot at this time promulgating myths both of schism and of reconciliation . Our experience is fragmentary be- cause , unlike Donne and his fellows ...
... Donne to ' amalgamate disparate experience ' , and see it whole . In fact , we can see Eliot at this time promulgating myths both of schism and of reconciliation . Our experience is fragmentary be- cause , unlike Donne and his fellows ...
Page 111
... Donne in favour of Andrewes ; as Ronald Bush points out , this reverses the preference expressed by Eliot in a piece on ' The Preacher as Artist ' , written for the Athenaeum in 1919.5 The Donne to whom ' a thought was an experience ...
... Donne in favour of Andrewes ; as Ronald Bush points out , this reverses the preference expressed by Eliot in a piece on ' The Preacher as Artist ' , written for the Athenaeum in 1919.5 The Donne to whom ' a thought was an experience ...
Page 112
... Donne as one ' imprisoned in the embrace of his own feelings ' , a writer who entertained ideas for their own sake rather than being committed to them as statements of truth . Set against such an attitude are the great poets of the ...
... Donne as one ' imprisoned in the embrace of his own feelings ' , a writer who entertained ideas for their own sake rather than being committed to them as statements of truth . Set against such an attitude are the great poets of the ...
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