Types of English PoetryRudolf Kirk, Clara Marburg Kirk Macmillan, 1940 - 663 pages |
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... century public by their adaptations of this old form . So well established was the ballad revival by 1782 that Cowper could use it with tremendous success in The Diverting History of John Gilpin . Then , at the end of the century , came ...
... century public by their adaptations of this old form . So well established was the ballad revival by 1782 that Cowper could use it with tremendous success in The Diverting History of John Gilpin . Then , at the end of the century , came ...
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... century and the first three quarters of the eighteenth century must be sought in the temperament of the time . In our essay on narrative poetry , we said that it was the “ Age of Reason " ; in our essay on moral poetry , we shall have a ...
... century and the first three quarters of the eighteenth century must be sought in the temperament of the time . In our essay on narrative poetry , we said that it was the “ Age of Reason " ; in our essay on moral poetry , we shall have a ...
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... century . One is all too familiar with the references to Virgil's " Mantuan song , " and with the habit of capitalizing " Truth , " " Nature , " and " Fancy . " On Mincio's banks , in Caesar's bounteous reign , If Tityrus found the ...
... century . One is all too familiar with the references to Virgil's " Mantuan song , " and with the habit of capitalizing " Truth , " " Nature , " and " Fancy . " On Mincio's banks , in Caesar's bounteous reign , If Tityrus found the ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE POETRY | 38 |
EDMUND SPENSER | 42 |
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