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Donne Critic Quotes Flashcards

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‘I cannot plead innocency of life, especially of my youth’

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John Donne

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John Donne

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‘I cannot plead innocency of life, especially of my youth’

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(Donne) ‘Perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts’

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John Dryden

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John Dryden

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(Donne) ‘Perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts’

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‘A thought to Donne was an experience’

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T.S Eliot

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T.S Eliot

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‘A thought to Donne was an experience’

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‘A conceit is a comparison whose ingenuity is more striking than its justness’

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Dame Helen Gardner

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Dame Helen Gardner

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‘A conceit is a comparison whose ingenuity is more striking than its justness’

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‘Where the writer thinks, and expects the reader to do so’

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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‘Where the writer thinks, and expects the reader to do so’

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‘A development of rapid association of thought’

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T.S Eliot

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T.S Eliot

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‘A development of rapid association of thought’

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‘Disturbing misogynistic menace’

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Bill Phillips

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Bill Phillips

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‘Disturbing misogynistic menace’

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‘We find in his religious writings a deep need for salvation’

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Smith

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Smith

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‘We find in his religious writings a deep need for salvation’

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‘Masculine persuasive force’

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Fish

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Fish

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‘Masculine persuasive force’

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‘The conceits have not even the merit of being intelligible, and it would perhaps be difficult to select three passages that we should care to read again’.

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Henry Hallam

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Henry Hallam

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‘The conceits have not even the merit of being intelligible, and it would perhaps be difficult to select three passages that we should care to read again’.

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