The Poems of Phineas Fletcher, for the First Time Collected And Edited: With Memoir, Essay, And Notes: 1
The Poems of Phineas Fletcher, for the First Time Collected And Edited: With Memoir, Essay, And Notes: 1
Phineas Fletcher
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CCCXV. of the * Locufttte ' and the * Apollyonists ' is very admirable. Hi» panoramic ^e^^ew of the effects -^ -(..i-x^juaj-' of Christanity has a vein of magnificent irony in it : and yet through all you are made to feel the pulsation of a heart in awM reality ' damkeb '.* Later cantos substitute the Polemic for the Poet : and in his eagerness to identify the Pope with Anti-Christ, the grandeur of the conception of * Satan' originally, is necessarily dwarfed. Never- theless evenin these later ...cantos there are intimations of the same presiding genius. The Sea-like-tide /« there though it operate not in the far-out central deeps but in shallow creek or sand-parched shore-marsh. I shall proceed now from the first book of * Paradise Lost ' onward, and note such details of FLETCHERIA17 influeuce as present themselves, suc- cessively. This involves somewhat of fragmentary criticism : but the great * Speech ' from the Locust® and the quotations from the * Apollyonists ' will impart unity to the details which are now submit- ted.
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