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An experiment in critical reading
The
Fields
of
Light
By
REUBEN ARTHUR
BROWER
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rewarding way to approach a work of literature
and to apprehend its total design.
Mr. Brower traces the imaginative and dra–
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through lyrics by Blake, Keats, Frost, Donne and
others, and then applies his analytical method to
reveal the central meaning of five longer works:
The Tempest,
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