Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 1647-1680Routledge and Paul, 1962 - 246 pages |
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... wrote verse and it appears that they often lived to- gether in that imaginary world of rococo pastoral that made a strong appeal to poetic minds at that period all over Europe . The pastoral convention , which had appeared to the eyes ...
... wrote verse and it appears that they often lived to- gether in that imaginary world of rococo pastoral that made a strong appeal to poetic minds at that period all over Europe . The pastoral convention , which had appeared to the eyes ...
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... wrote Synge in 1908 , ' that before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal . ' These words can be applied to the age when seventeenth - century romanticism was dying as well as to that which saw the collapse of the ...
... wrote Synge in 1908 , ' that before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal . ' These words can be applied to the age when seventeenth - century romanticism was dying as well as to that which saw the collapse of the ...
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... wrote . The only text which we have is that printed in the collection called Familiar Letters published in 1697.1 It is undated and no manuscript survives . It was formerly supposed that this letter was written in 1679 and that it ...
... wrote . The only text which we have is that printed in the collection called Familiar Letters published in 1697.1 It is undated and no manuscript survives . It was formerly supposed that this letter was written in 1679 and that it ...
Contents
Two THE CLIMATE OF OPINION | 22 |
Three VERY ACCEPTABLE IN A COURT | 32 |
Four THE UTOPIA OF GALLANTRY | 60 |
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