A Literary History of England: The Restoration and eighteenth century, 1660-1789, by George SherburnAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1948 - 1673 pages |
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... less and less , and what he wrote tended to be jeux d'esprit merely . One of his best poems , Cadenus and Vanessa , which had been written in 1712 or 1713 to cure Esther Van- homrigh of a passion for Swift , appeared in 1726 , three ...
... less and less , and what he wrote tended to be jeux d'esprit merely . One of his best poems , Cadenus and Vanessa , which had been written in 1712 or 1713 to cure Esther Van- homrigh of a passion for Swift , appeared in 1726 , three ...
Page 901
... less focused on description and more philosophical in intention . The tendency to grandiose ideals led poets who might have written what we now call lyrics to express their emotions in Pindarics rather than in less swollen lyric forms ...
... less focused on description and more philosophical in intention . The tendency to grandiose ideals led poets who might have written what we now call lyrics to express their emotions in Pindarics rather than in less swollen lyric forms ...
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... less merriment , " but gaiety of tone is not here really obtrusive . He had little assistance , and that little came also from persons of sobriety : Elizabeth Carter , Catherine Talbot , Hester Mulso ( later Mrs. Chapone ) , each wrote ...
... less merriment , " but gaiety of tone is not here really obtrusive . He had little assistance , and that little came also from persons of sobriety : Elizabeth Carter , Catherine Talbot , Hester Mulso ( later Mrs. Chapone ) , each wrote ...
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 696 |
Literary Criticism of the Restoration | 710 |
III The Poetry of Dryden | 722 |
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