Silver Poets of the Eighteenth CenturyArthur Pollard |
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... poet catered for his reader's expectation and for his delight in recognition . Our first poet may seem at times hardly to fit the strict and well - ordered pattern of Augustanism which I have summarized above . Jonathan Swift ( 1667 ...
... poet catered for his reader's expectation and for his delight in recognition . Our first poet may seem at times hardly to fit the strict and well - ordered pattern of Augustanism which I have summarized above . Jonathan Swift ( 1667 ...
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... poet in that manner . Not far beneath the surface there seems often to have been more passion than Gray was willing to reveal . The com- parative meagreness of his output may itself , to some degree , derive from his firm capacity for ...
... poet in that manner . Not far beneath the surface there seems often to have been more passion than Gray was willing to reveal . The com- parative meagreness of his output may itself , to some degree , derive from his firm capacity for ...
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... poetic expression in The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry ( 1704 ) . ' Wise ' is , of course , ironic . Bossu , René le ( 1631-80 ) , wrote Traité du poème épique ( 1675 ) . 251. Dryden , John ( 1631-1700 ) , playwright , poet and critic ...
... poetic expression in The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry ( 1704 ) . ' Wise ' is , of course , ironic . Bossu , René le ( 1631-80 ) , wrote Traité du poème épique ( 1675 ) . 251. Dryden , John ( 1631-1700 ) , playwright , poet and critic ...
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