The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 12Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller University Press, 1970 - English literature |
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... poets , which conferred , imperceptibly , perhaps , to himself , a certain antique flavour on the form , as well as the substance , of his poem . From the immense poetic licence which this ' mescolanza of measures ' affords , success in ...
... poets , which conferred , imperceptibly , perhaps , to himself , a certain antique flavour on the form , as well as the substance , of his poem . From the immense poetic licence which this ' mescolanza of measures ' affords , success in ...
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... poem is the dramatic picture of the stress and tumult and varying fortunes of the Flodden conflict , to the last heroic stand of the Scots and their flight across the Tweed in the gathering darkness . With the description of the ...
... poem is the dramatic picture of the stress and tumult and varying fortunes of the Flodden conflict , to the last heroic stand of the Scots and their flight across the Tweed in the gathering darkness . With the description of the ...
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... poems that Byron ever wrote . Intensely lyrical in spirit , the poem is , nevertheless , written in blank verse , which Byron here manipulates with a dexterity that he seems to have utterly lost in the loosely knit structure of his ...
... poems that Byron ever wrote . Intensely lyrical in spirit , the poem is , nevertheless , written in blank verse , which Byron here manipulates with a dexterity that he seems to have utterly lost in the loosely knit structure of his ...
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