The Poetry of Abraham CowleyMacmillan, 1979 - 162 pages |
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... courses of action produced the more enjoy- able poetry , but The Mistress holds a kind of fascination for me because it registers from the inside the exhaustion of a dis- course . Conventions whose functioning had seemed automatic ...
... courses of action produced the more enjoy- able poetry , but The Mistress holds a kind of fascination for me because it registers from the inside the exhaustion of a dis- course . Conventions whose functioning had seemed automatic ...
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... course does the passive tense of the final verb . If the first stanza had imposed on moral weakness a cognitive strength - the unity of self- consciousness - then the second stanza demonstrates that such awareness is itself an illusion ...
... course does the passive tense of the final verb . If the first stanza had imposed on moral weakness a cognitive strength - the unity of self- consciousness - then the second stanza demonstrates that such awareness is itself an illusion ...
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... course of action , while the way she says it persuades him to another , contradictory course . Her ' great power ' must be disobeyed in order to be obeyed ; obedience is disobedience . This type of double bind is described most expli ...
... course of action , while the way she says it persuades him to another , contradictory course . Her ' great power ' must be disobeyed in order to be obeyed ; obedience is disobedience . This type of double bind is described most expli ...
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