From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... close of the century , when the efflorescence of the naturalistic poets , first from within , as in Crabbe , and then much more decisively from without , as in Wordsworth and Coleridge , destroyed it altogether . To the first and second ...
... close of the century , when the efflorescence of the naturalistic poets , first from within , as in Crabbe , and then much more decisively from without , as in Wordsworth and Coleridge , destroyed it altogether . To the first and second ...
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... close of the sixteenth century by Chiabrera , who in disdaining the folly of the Marinists , and in trying to recall his countrymen to a Greek simplicity , attained a position somewhat analogous to that of Cowley . But he stood alone ...
... close of the sixteenth century by Chiabrera , who in disdaining the folly of the Marinists , and in trying to recall his countrymen to a Greek simplicity , attained a position somewhat analogous to that of Cowley . But he stood alone ...
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... close of his flat and vapid romance , Zlatna , 1624 , is almost pathetic in its aspiration : So würd ich meine Vers ' auch wol nicht lassen liegen , Gar bald mit Mantua biss an die Wolken fliegen , Bald mit dem Pindarus ; Nasonis Elegie ...
... close of his flat and vapid romance , Zlatna , 1624 , is almost pathetic in its aspiration : So würd ich meine Vers ' auch wol nicht lassen liegen , Gar bald mit Mantua biss an die Wolken fliegen , Bald mit dem Pindarus ; Nasonis Elegie ...
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... close of his career , a classicism exactly answering to ours had invaded all Dutch literature , but it had come unobserved , and had been out- stripped by the like tendency in England . Something might be said of Spain , whose drama ...
... close of his career , a classicism exactly answering to ours had invaded all Dutch literature , but it had come unobserved , and had been out- stripped by the like tendency in England . Something might be said of Spain , whose drama ...
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... close of the eighteenth century impelled all the literatures of Europe to throw off the chains which they had adopted one hundred and fifty years before . 1 The lines , addressed to Mme de Rambouillet , which were inserted in the letter ...
... close of the eighteenth century impelled all the literatures of Europe to throw off the chains which they had adopted one hundred and fifty years before . 1 The lines , addressed to Mme de Rambouillet , which were inserted in the letter ...
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