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Subject: BERKELEY, GEORGE (1685-1753)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` FOUNTAIN, by DONALD DAVIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Feathers up fast, and steeples; then in clods
Last Line: We ask of fountains only that they play, %though that was not what berkeley meant at all
Subject(s): Berkeley, George (1685-1753); Fountains


IDEALISM, by ASHLEY MONTAGU    Poem Source                    
First Line: A philosopher, one bishop berkeley
Subject(s): Berkeley, George (1685-1753); Idealism


THE FOUNTAIN, by DONALD DAVIE                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Feathers up fast, and steeples; then in clods
Subject(s): Berkeley, George (1685-1753); Fountains


TO A BERKELEYAN IDEALIST, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If nature be a phastasm, as thou say'st
Last Line: More than content with worlds that only seem.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Berkeley, George (1685-1753); Idealism; Philosophy & Philosophers