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... classical models led to another and a far less fortunate result . They allowed their erudition to impinge upon their ... Classical Art . It is in their shorter poems - when the stress of classical imitation is forgotten in the ebullition ...
... classical models led to another and a far less fortunate result . They allowed their erudition to impinge upon their ... Classical Art . It is in their shorter poems - when the stress of classical imitation is forgotten in the ebullition ...
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... Classical school was in its infancy , and its great leaders - Molière , Racine , La Fontaine - were still disputing their right to pre - eminence among a host of inferior and now forgotten writers whose works were carrying on the weak ...
... Classical school was in its infancy , and its great leaders - Molière , Racine , La Fontaine - were still disputing their right to pre - eminence among a host of inferior and now forgotten writers whose works were carrying on the weak ...
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... classical ideal in his workman- ship , if he exceeded it in the breadth and diversity of his mind , it is still true that the essence of his dramatic method was hardly less classical than that of Racine himself . His subject - matter ...
... classical ideal in his workman- ship , if he exceeded it in the breadth and diversity of his mind , it is still true that the essence of his dramatic method was hardly less classical than that of Racine himself . His subject - matter ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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