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... criticism , are apparently unable to discriminate between their good work and their bad . Both have suffered , and still suffer , in public estimation from this cause . The average reader of poetry does not care to have to search and ...
... criticism , are apparently unable to discriminate between their good work and their bad . Both have suffered , and still suffer , in public estimation from this cause . The average reader of poetry does not care to have to search and ...
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... critic of experience would have recognised in it a force as well as a fluency remarkable in a young man of twenty - one , and pointing to quite other possi- bilities when the age of imitation should have passed away . In 1775 Crabbe's ...
... critic of experience would have recognised in it a force as well as a fluency remarkable in a young man of twenty - one , and pointing to quite other possi- bilities when the age of imitation should have passed away . In 1775 Crabbe's ...
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... criticism would have been juster had he written that Crabbe was the truest painter of Nature in her less lovely phases . Crabbe was not stern in his attitude either to his fellow - men , or to the varying aspects of Nature , although ...
... criticism would have been juster had he written that Crabbe was the truest painter of Nature in her less lovely phases . Crabbe was not stern in his attitude either to his fellow - men , or to the varying aspects of Nature , although ...
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... criticism at the time . The idea of this attempt to propitiate the critics in advance , with a view to other poetic efforts in the future , was not felicitous . The publisher , " H. Payne , opposite Marl- borough House , Pall Mall ...
... criticism at the time . The idea of this attempt to propitiate the critics in advance , with a view to other poetic efforts in the future , was not felicitous . The publisher , " H. Payne , opposite Marl- borough House , Pall Mall ...
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... critics of the Monthly Review , far from being mollified by the poet's appeal , received the poem with the cruel but perfectly just remark that it had " that material defect , the want of a proper subject . " An allegorical episode may ...
... critics of the Monthly Review , far from being mollified by the poet's appeal , received the poem with the cruel but perfectly just remark that it had " that material defect , the want of a proper subject . " An allegorical episode may ...
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