From Shakespeare to Pope: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Phenomena of the Rise of Classical Poetry in England |
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... young Was called to empire , and had governed long , In prose and verse was owned , without dispute , Through all the realms of Nonsense , absolute . This aged prince , now flourishing in peace And blest with issue of a large increase ...
... young Was called to empire , and had governed long , In prose and verse was owned , without dispute , Through all the realms of Nonsense , absolute . This aged prince , now flourishing in peace And blest with issue of a large increase ...
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... poetry had not begun to exist . Here we might expect a young literature , fresh in all the colours of the morning , to arise with healing in its wings . But , as though , on the eve of the horrors of Death of Shakespeare . 15.
... poetry had not begun to exist . Here we might expect a young literature , fresh in all the colours of the morning , to arise with healing in its wings . But , as though , on the eve of the horrors of Death of Shakespeare . 15.
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... young bards in the gardens of Oxford , and would say to them , " I saw thy copy of verses on her ladyship's eyebrow . They were good , vastly good ! See to it that thou write no more . " Such compliments were not encouraging to ...
... young bards in the gardens of Oxford , and would say to them , " I saw thy copy of verses on her ladyship's eyebrow . They were good , vastly good ! See to it that thou write no more . " Such compliments were not encouraging to ...
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... young writers . Poetry was no longer a profession , it was a cultus . A certain order of conceits was a shibboleth , which the public not only did not understand , but was not expected to understand . Poetry began to be written for ...
... young writers . Poetry was no longer a profession , it was a cultus . A certain order of conceits was a shibboleth , which the public not only did not understand , but was not expected to understand . Poetry began to be written for ...
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... young men of poetic aspirations to affect the tragedies of Cyril Tourneur . The name was an agreeable one , the plays were very rare and difficult to meet with , and accordingly Cyril Tourneur became a kind of watchword of the higher ...
... young men of poetic aspirations to affect the tragedies of Cyril Tourneur . The name was an agreeable one , the plays were very rare and difficult to meet with , and accordingly Cyril Tourneur became a kind of watchword of the higher ...
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