Twayne's English Authors Series, Volume 115Twayne Publishers, 1972 |
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Page 20
... final couplet on Justices of the Peace is an excellent example of his developing satiric technique in employing a fem- inine rhyme to capture the proper irony ; the lines suggest a couplet from a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta : " And ...
... final couplet on Justices of the Peace is an excellent example of his developing satiric technique in employing a fem- inine rhyme to capture the proper irony ; the lines suggest a couplet from a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta : " And ...
Page 64
... final stanza echoes the opening images of flight , and Pindar is the " Theban Swan " carried high into the air ; Cowley's " tim'erous Muse " ( like Horace's ) is content with humbler , do- mestic " flights . " But these " lesser flights ...
... final stanza echoes the opening images of flight , and Pindar is the " Theban Swan " carried high into the air ; Cowley's " tim'erous Muse " ( like Horace's ) is content with humbler , do- mestic " flights . " But these " lesser flights ...
Page 114
... final four books were published posthumously in 1668. The poems , which represent Cowley's final literary achievement , are unfortunately available only in A. B. Grosart's collected edition . Sprat thought of Cowley's Latin poems as the ...
... final four books were published posthumously in 1668. The poems , which represent Cowley's final literary achievement , are unfortunately available only in A. B. Grosart's collected edition . Sprat thought of Cowley's Latin poems as the ...
Contents
Preface | 11 |
The Muses Hannibal | 34 |
The great Methusalem of Love | 47 |
Copyright | |
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