Late Augustan PoetryPatricia Meyer Spacks |
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... poet who could identify himself with some gigantic forebear dignified his achieve- ment through the association ... poet more manifest than its achievement , the past provided standards by which to condemn it . Samuel Johnson's ...
... poet who could identify himself with some gigantic forebear dignified his achieve- ment through the association ... poet more manifest than its achievement , the past provided standards by which to condemn it . Samuel Johnson's ...
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... poet's effort to focus on particular aspects of meaning ; and they can carry considerable emotional weight . The " poetic diction " that troubled Wordsworth in eighteenth- century poetic language is in fact the source of its best ...
... poet's effort to focus on particular aspects of meaning ; and they can carry considerable emotional weight . The " poetic diction " that troubled Wordsworth in eighteenth- century poetic language is in fact the source of its best ...
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... poet's tone would have satiric overtones , but the satire of such renditions was qualified by the poet's immediate pleasure in conveying reality . Like his predecessors , the eighteenth - century poet was a man looking at men . His ...
... poet's tone would have satiric overtones , but the satire of such renditions was qualified by the poet's immediate pleasure in conveying reality . Like his predecessors , the eighteenth - century poet was a man looking at men . His ...
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