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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fied astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wildemess, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. XXXII A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — 280 A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round...
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Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their Audiences in ...

William G. Rowland - 1996 - 254 pages
...described himself in these lines: he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. (lines 274-79) The isolation of the poet from society that Wordsworth's narrators represent is here...
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology

Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 474 pages
...Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like,0 and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. the mountain shepherds: symbolic versions of contemporary poets. sere: dried up. Pilgrim of Eternity:...
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The Poetics of Disappointment: Wordsworth to Ashbery

Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 pages
...(272-74) And then in Adonais: he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. (274-79)" These are figures not merely of being trapped in, but of being betrayed by, one's own mind,...
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Shelley and His Readers: Beyond Paranoid Politics

Kim Wheatley - 1999 - 292 pages
...quotation as "natural" (H, 301): He, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. (11. 274-79) These lines suggest Shelley's identification with the "frail Form" that is their subject,...
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Classical Mythology in English Literature: A Critical Anthology

Geoffrey Miles - 1999 - 476 pages
...himself. Actaeon-like: for the story of Aciaeon seech, 3, p. 4t, or Metamorphoses, book 3. A pardlike0 Spirit beautiful and swift A Love in desolation masked...weakness - it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent0 hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow - even whilst we speak...
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Genre and Ethics: The Education of an Eighteenth-century Critic

Edward Tomarken - 2002 - 292 pages
...storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. (2:780) Shelley here portrays himself as not merely alone, but apart from society. In a stance typical...
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Selected Writings

Leigh Hunt - 2003 - 204 pages
...purpose a true scholar can turn it: He, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Acta?on-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...world's wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that ragged way. Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. A pard-like Spirit, beautiful...
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Endangered Species

Gene Wolfe - 2004 - 516 pages
...storm. Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the...Pursued like raging hounds their father and their prey. The Woman the Unicorn Loved AT the western edge of the campus the parkway sent a river of steel and...
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Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s; Chimes of Freedom, revised and ...

Mike Marqusee - 2011 - 378 pages
...CHAPTER 3 Little Boy Lost A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A love in desolation mask'd — a Power Girt round with weakness— it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour —Shelley, "Adonais" Between late 1964 and his motorcycle accident in the summer of 1966, Dylan created...
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