From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... none the less instruct us in a moment that here we have two brilliant artists whose methods , whose ambitions , whose 1 Mac - Flecknoe ( 1682 ) , ll . 1—14 . whole conception of style , are at the poles of Death of Shakespeare . 7.
... none the less instruct us in a moment that here we have two brilliant artists whose methods , whose ambitions , whose 1 Mac - Flecknoe ( 1682 ) , ll . 1—14 . whole conception of style , are at the poles of Death of Shakespeare . 7.
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... style , are at the poles of con- trast . Briefly , then , it may be said that each of the manners thus exemplified has been twice in the ascendant in English poetry . The classical , or precise , when poetry first began to be written in ...
... style , are at the poles of con- trast . Briefly , then , it may be said that each of the manners thus exemplified has been twice in the ascendant in English poetry . The classical , or precise , when poetry first began to be written in ...
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... which I do not recollect to have seen noted by any critic , that this great leader of the precise style in poetry , this harbinger of Boileau and Racine , wrote less in alexandrines than any other French 20 Poetry at the.
... which I do not recollect to have seen noted by any critic , that this great leader of the precise style in poetry , this harbinger of Boileau and Racine , wrote less in alexandrines than any other French 20 Poetry at the.
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... style . I do not believe that Waller and Sidney Godolphin and Denham were in the very smallest degree affected by the French revolt against the poetry of the Renaissance when they opened their campaign against the romantic school at ...
... style . I do not believe that Waller and Sidney Godolphin and Denham were in the very smallest degree affected by the French revolt against the poetry of the Renaissance when they opened their campaign against the romantic school at ...
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... style , and by his fortunate genius . He says things which might be monstrous , if the human race did not immediately consent to break records , as athletic people say , and to begin experience again from Shakespeare's point of view ...
... style , and by his fortunate genius . He says things which might be monstrous , if the human race did not immediately consent to break records , as athletic people say , and to begin experience again from Shakespeare's point of view ...
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