From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... piece , because , like the first , it breathes indignation against the medio- crity of poetasters . Our ears none the less instruct us in a moment that here we have two brilliant artists whose methods , whose ambitions , whose 1 Mac ...
... piece , because , like the first , it breathes indignation against the medio- crity of poetasters . Our ears none the less instruct us in a moment that here we have two brilliant artists whose methods , whose ambitions , whose 1 Mac ...
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... pieces had come to light , but he had published no book : he was simply a fructifying centre of influence , just as Rossetti lately was in London for twenty years before he printed a book . Malherbe's poems did not appear in Paris till ...
... pieces had come to light , but he had published no book : he was simply a fructifying centre of influence , just as Rossetti lately was in London for twenty years before he printed a book . Malherbe's poems did not appear in Paris till ...
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... pieces , and I should be the last to wish to break one leaf away from their never - too- ample bays . But it seems to me mere pedantry , and pedantry of a particularly unwholesome kind , to pretend that the works of all the Marinist or ...
... pieces , and I should be the last to wish to break one leaf away from their never - too- ample bays . But it seems to me mere pedantry , and pedantry of a particularly unwholesome kind , to pretend that the works of all the Marinist or ...
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... piece was first discovered in a unique copy some twelve years ago . Well , the editor and fondest admirer of Cyril Tourneur admits that the exces- sive obscurity of The Transformed Metamorphosis " arises as much from the abnormal and ...
... piece was first discovered in a unique copy some twelve years ago . Well , the editor and fondest admirer of Cyril Tourneur admits that the exces- sive obscurity of The Transformed Metamorphosis " arises as much from the abnormal and ...
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... piece On his Majesty's receiving the news of the Duke of Buckingham's death . In the choice of his subject Waller once more showed a tact which served him well with his own immediate public , but which has lost its charm for posterity ...
... piece On his Majesty's receiving the news of the Duke of Buckingham's death . In the choice of his subject Waller once more showed a tact which served him well with his own immediate public , but which has lost its charm for posterity ...
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