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There was much in the new poetry which was immature and imperfect , not a little that was fantastic and affected . But it was the first adequate effort of reviving English poetry . The Shepherd's Calendar consists of twelve compositions ...
There was much in the new poetry which was immature and imperfect , not a little that was fantastic and affected . But it was the first adequate effort of reviving English poetry . The Shepherd's Calendar consists of twelve compositions ...
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by Leicester's favour some government office , to have had his habits moulded and his thoughts affected by the brilliant and unscrupulous society of the court , or by the powerful and daring minds which were fast thronging the political ...
by Leicester's favour some government office , to have had his habits moulded and his thoughts affected by the brilliant and unscrupulous society of the court , or by the powerful and daring minds which were fast thronging the political ...
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“ In affecting the ancients , " said Ben Jonson , “ he writ no language . ... Fuller remarks with some slyness , that " the many Chaucerisms used ( for I will not say , affected ) by him , are thought by the ignorant to be blemishes ...
“ In affecting the ancients , " said Ben Jonson , “ he writ no language . ... Fuller remarks with some slyness , that " the many Chaucerisms used ( for I will not say , affected ) by him , are thought by the ignorant to be blemishes ...
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| Title | Spenser British Writers Series The Gale library of lives and letters. British writers series “The” Gale Library of lives and letters |
| Author | Richard William Church |
| Edition | 2, reprint |
| Publisher | Gale Research Company, 1968 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2017 |
| ISBN | 0810330571, 9780810330573 |
| Length | 188 pages |
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