A Literary History of England: The Restoration and eighteenth century, 1660-1789, by George SherburnAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1948 - 1673 pages |
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... verse , being otherwise realists in attitude towards poetry , were unhappy in their attempts to marry his exotic idiom to everyday detail ; but their attempts show that they valued blank verse . Not all blank verse , as we have seen ...
... verse , being otherwise realists in attitude towards poetry , were unhappy in their attempts to marry his exotic idiom to everyday detail ; but their attempts show that they valued blank verse . Not all blank verse , as we have seen ...
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... verse poem that celebrates in honest detail the joys of the hunt , the breeding and training of hounds , and the attendant outdoor pleasures of a country squire . Earlier Somervile had published fables and verse tales of rural life ...
... verse poem that celebrates in honest detail the joys of the hunt , the breeding and training of hounds , and the attendant outdoor pleasures of a country squire . Earlier Somervile had published fables and verse tales of rural life ...
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... verse of The Task and of Yardley Oak Cowper achieves His Blank more individuality than in the couplet . He may have believed that he as Verse well as " every warbler " had Pope's tune by heart , but actually his couplets , as compared ...
... verse of The Task and of Yardley Oak Cowper achieves His Blank more individuality than in the couplet . He may have believed that he as Verse well as " every warbler " had Pope's tune by heart , but actually his couplets , as compared ...
Contents
List of Abbreviations | 696 |
Literary Criticism of the Restoration | 710 |
III The Poetry of Dryden | 722 |
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