From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... Dryden , of Pope , and of Johnson . The school of writers who cultivated this order - and those who emphasise their faults admit that they did institute a school - have commonly been de- scribed as the classical , because their early ...
... Dryden , of Pope , and of Johnson . The school of writers who cultivated this order - and those who emphasise their faults admit that they did institute a school - have commonly been de- scribed as the classical , because their early ...
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... Dryden and Pope , who had been enthroned so long in secure promise of immortality , felt their shrines shaken as by an earthquake . It became the fashion to say that these men were no poets at all , and Keats , in a curious passage of ...
... Dryden and Pope , who had been enthroned so long in secure promise of immortality , felt their shrines shaken as by an earthquake . It became the fashion to say that these men were no poets at all , and Keats , in a curious passage of ...
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... Dryden : - " All human things are subject to decay , And , when Fate summons , monarchs must obey . This Flecknoe found , who , like Augustus , young Was called to empire , and had governed long , In prose and verse was owned , without ...
... Dryden : - " All human things are subject to decay , And , when Fate summons , monarchs must obey . This Flecknoe found , who , like Augustus , young Was called to empire , and had governed long , In prose and verse was owned , without ...
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... Dryden . But there was more in the change to a classical taste than can be understood merely by a reference to our local schools of poetry in England . When Waller purified his verse of ornament and arranged it in distichs , he was ...
... Dryden . But there was more in the change to a classical taste than can be understood merely by a reference to our local schools of poetry in England . When Waller purified his verse of ornament and arranged it in distichs , he was ...
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... Dryden or a Pope , and the real reaction there was one against poetry altogether . A sort of classical revival , however , was attempted at the close of the sixteenth century by Chiabrera , who in disdaining the folly of the Marinists ...
... Dryden or a Pope , and the real reaction there was one against poetry altogether . A sort of classical revival , however , was attempted at the close of the sixteenth century by Chiabrera , who in disdaining the folly of the Marinists ...
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