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Those ideas which are the intire creation of the mind , or are the result of the poet's own observations and immediately drawn from nature , are the only original ones in the proper sense . A poet who adopts images , who culls out ...
Those ideas which are the intire creation of the mind , or are the result of the poet's own observations and immediately drawn from nature , are the only original ones in the proper sense . A poet who adopts images , who culls out ...
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Seldom has the fiat of an older poet fallen on more attentive ears than Walsh's on Pope's . ... and used to tell me , that there was one way left of excelling : for though we had several great poets , we never had any one great poet ...
Seldom has the fiat of an older poet fallen on more attentive ears than Walsh's on Pope's . ... and used to tell me , that there was one way left of excelling : for though we had several great poets , we never had any one great poet ...
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The better the poet , the more exact his reproduction of external reality . “ Description is the great test of a Poet's imagination , ” Hugh Blair pronounced ; " and always distinguishes an original from a second - rate Genius .
The better the poet , the more exact his reproduction of external reality . “ Description is the great test of a Poet's imagination , ” Hugh Blair pronounced ; " and always distinguishes an original from a second - rate Genius .
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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