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... verse ideally suited to the rhythmic flow of his poetry . Though free verse was to encounter much opposition and derision , by 1950 it had become established as a vehicle well fitted to the purposes of contemporary poets who aimed to ...
... verse ideally suited to the rhythmic flow of his poetry . Though free verse was to encounter much opposition and derision , by 1950 it had become established as a vehicle well fitted to the purposes of contemporary poets who aimed to ...
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Alfred Charles Ward. SURREY III had devised and which we know as blank verse . When used by minor poets blank verse becomes as monotonous as inferior rhyming couplets , and some early users of blank verse appear to make a conscious ...
Alfred Charles Ward. SURREY III had devised and which we know as blank verse . When used by minor poets blank verse becomes as monotonous as inferior rhyming couplets , and some early users of blank verse appear to make a conscious ...
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... verse that interests most nowadays in The Spanish Tragedy . Kyd's blank verse is competent but intermittent , as though he wrote rhymed verse almost instinctively and with enjoyment but blank verse only by conscious effort and because ...
... verse that interests most nowadays in The Spanish Tragedy . Kyd's blank verse is competent but intermittent , as though he wrote rhymed verse almost instinctively and with enjoyment but blank verse only by conscious effort and because ...
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UNTIL CHAUCER I | 1 |
CHAUCER HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND | 14 |
POPULAR LITERATURE | 43 |
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