SOURCE: 'The Dead Phoenix," Essays in Criticism, Vol. XV, No. 3, July, 1965, pp. 279-87.
In the essay that follows, Copland criticizes a mystical interpretive approach to the poem, given the "fashionable" status of metaphysical images in the Elizabethan age.
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