George Herbert: Sacred and ProfaneHelen Wilcox, Richard Todd VU University Press, 1995 - 211 pages |
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Page 131
... irony , but the wise ' friend ' is also shown to have a sense of humour . Since the voice here may be assumed to represent a divine intervention in the poem , the ironic wit which it demonstrates is a crucial sign of the suitability of ...
... irony , but the wise ' friend ' is also shown to have a sense of humour . Since the voice here may be assumed to represent a divine intervention in the poem , the ironic wit which it demonstrates is a crucial sign of the suitability of ...
Page 138
... irony with which this essay is concerned . The fifth is perhaps the most familiar , and most easily identifiable , type : the small - scale ironic effect located in the single word with a double impact , a rhetorical feature which we ...
... irony with which this essay is concerned . The fifth is perhaps the most familiar , and most easily identifiable , type : the small - scale ironic effect located in the single word with a double impact , a rhetorical feature which we ...
Page 139
... irony of understatement , and the choice of such a resonant word as ' apple ' to be the focal point of the ironic wit , together give this apparently nonchalant line a power beyond its simplicity . These , then , are five aspects of the ...
... irony of understatement , and the choice of such a resonant word as ' apple ' to be the focal point of the ironic wit , together give this apparently nonchalant line a power beyond its simplicity . These , then , are five aspects of the ...
Contents
Prolegomena | 3 |
Herbert and Kings | 33 |
Sacred Parody and George Herbert | 49 |
Copyright | |
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