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... poet was measured by his capacity for turning a somersault in verse - for constructing ingenious word- puzzles with which to express exaggerated sentiments ; and no prose - writer was worth looking at who could not drag a complicated ...
... poet was measured by his capacity for turning a somersault in verse - for constructing ingenious word- puzzles with which to express exaggerated sentiments ; and no prose - writer was worth looking at who could not drag a complicated ...
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... poetic genius ; and it is not as a poet that he is interest- ing : it is as a critic . When the lines upon which French literature was to develop were still uncertain , when the Classical school was in its infancy , and its great ...
... poetic genius ; and it is not as a poet that he is interest- ing : it is as a critic . When the lines upon which French literature was to develop were still uncertain , when the Classical school was in its infancy , and its great ...
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... poet , for he was a poet by nature , but into one of the most subtle , deliberate , patient , and exquisite craftsmen who have ever written in verse . The process was a long one ; La Fontaine was in his fifties when he wrote the greater ...
... poet , for he was a poet by nature , but into one of the most subtle , deliberate , patient , and exquisite craftsmen who have ever written in verse . The process was a long one ; La Fontaine was in his fifties when he wrote the greater ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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