Interpretations: Essays on Twelve English Poems

abstract alchemy alliteration appear associations attitude Augustan beauty becomes bird Christ Christabel Claude Colleer Abbott Coleridge contrast couplet criticism Cromwell damnation Dark Angel death Denham despair diction divine Donne Donne's dreams drifting dust Empson essay eternity evil experience eyes F. W. Bateson fact Falcon feelings finally force G. S. Fraser Geraldine Gerard Manley Hopkins God's grace heart human human weight I. A. Richards iambic pentameter Johnson kind lady language lines literary logic look lovers Macbeth means merely metaphor metaphysical mind moral movement nature night paradox passage passion perhaps philosophers poem poem's poet poet's poetic poetry present Prufrock question reader reading Resolution and Independence river seems sense shadow Shakespeare simile Sir Leoline social soul spirit stanza stress suggests symbol thee thine thing thou thought tion tone verse W. B. Yeats Windhover word Wordsworth writing Yeats