The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney |
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... Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope , ed . Aubrey Williams ( 1967 ) , and The Selected Poetry of Pope , ed . Martin Price ( 1970 ) . We still await the definitive biography of the great poet . Samuel Johnson's Life of Pope ( printed in ...
... Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope , ed . Aubrey Williams ( 1967 ) , and The Selected Poetry of Pope , ed . Martin Price ( 1970 ) . We still await the definitive biography of the great poet . Samuel Johnson's Life of Pope ( printed in ...
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... poetic gift as the power to bring such precision and vividness to the creation of compelling fictions . To them images could seem the very substance of poetry , not its decoration ; they might admire Collins . And they could even— like ...
... poetic gift as the power to bring such precision and vividness to the creation of compelling fictions . To them images could seem the very substance of poetry , not its decoration ; they might admire Collins . And they could even— like ...
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... poetry of the age . But the " sublime " poets , the poets of sensibility , have been less thoroughly examined than their predecessors in the " line of wit , " and many ques- tions about poetic language in use remain yet un- answered ...
... poetry of the age . But the " sublime " poets , the poets of sensibility , have been less thoroughly examined than their predecessors in the " line of wit , " and many ques- tions about poetic language in use remain yet un- answered ...
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Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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