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... poem of modern times , the first creation of English imaginative power since Chaucer , and like Chaucer so thoroughly and characteristically English , was not written in England . Whatever Spenser may have done to it before he left ...
... poem of modern times , the first creation of English imaginative power since Chaucer , and like Chaucer so thoroughly and characteristically English , was not written in England . Whatever Spenser may have done to it before he left ...
Page 126
... poem became an elastic framework , into which he could fit whatever in- terested him and tempted him to composition . The grav- ity of the first books disappears . He passes into satire and caricature . We meet with Braggadochio and ...
... poem became an elastic framework , into which he could fit whatever in- terested him and tempted him to composition . The grav- ity of the first books disappears . He passes into satire and caricature . We meet with Braggadochio and ...
Page 128
... poem is matter which disturbs a reader's satisfaction , till he gets accustomed to the poet's way , and resigns himself to it . It is a heroic poem , in which the heroine , who gives her name to it , never ap- pears a story , of which ...
... poem is matter which disturbs a reader's satisfaction , till he gets accustomed to the poet's way , and resigns himself to it . It is a heroic poem , in which the heroine , who gives her name to it , never ap- pears a story , of which ...
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