The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... poem has , by the nature of its subject , the advantage above all others , that it is universally and perpetu- ally interesting . All mankind will , through all ages , bear the same relation to Adam and to Eve , and must partake of that ...
... poem has , by the nature of its subject , the advantage above all others , that it is universally and perpetu- ally interesting . All mankind will , through all ages , bear the same relation to Adam and to Eve , and must partake of that ...
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... poem to poem , as anyone will see who will compare carefully the Essay on Criticism with the Essay on Man , or the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot with that to Augustus . There is the character of the interlocutor in the poems that have ...
... poem to poem , as anyone will see who will compare carefully the Essay on Criticism with the Essay on Man , or the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot with that to Augustus . There is the character of the interlocutor in the poems that have ...
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... poem ought to embody the actual per- sonal emotion of its contriver , presumably — and this is always an embarrassment to theories of self- expression at the exact moment when the compo- sition was begun : [ Lycidas ] is not to be ...
... poem ought to embody the actual per- sonal emotion of its contriver , presumably — and this is always an embarrassment to theories of self- expression at the exact moment when the compo- sition was begun : [ Lycidas ] is not to be ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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