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... Watts . We may say that the puritan became respectable - less by acceding to the standards of society , than by making those standards bend to his . But this is inadequate . With Watts the English puritan became not just respectable ...
... Watts . We may say that the puritan became respectable - less by acceding to the standards of society , than by making those standards bend to his . But this is inadequate . With Watts the English puritan became not just respectable ...
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... Watts , whose loyal poem of 1705 to Queen Anne was given a vicious ' Palinodia ' in 1721 , because the Queen had let in the Tories ten years before . It would be charitable to say that Watts as poet has been the victim of his own ...
... Watts , whose loyal poem of 1705 to Queen Anne was given a vicious ' Palinodia ' in 1721 , because the Queen had let in the Tories ten years before . It would be charitable to say that Watts as poet has been the victim of his own ...
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... Watts , which is a superior alternative to an artful tradition represented by Pope . No such thing ! Watts is a very artful poet , and his simplicity is the product of art . ( It is also the product of a heroic abnegation by this poet ...
... Watts , which is a superior alternative to an artful tradition represented by Pope . No such thing ! Watts is a very artful poet , and his simplicity is the product of art . ( It is also the product of a heroic abnegation by this poet ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
EOGHAN RUADH O SUILLEBHAIN | 130 |
WILLIAM BLAKE 17571827 | 137 |
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