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... Pope . He let it be understood that he would be willing to part with £ 4,000 if the poet would gratify him ; a single couplet was all he asked for ; but the Alderman begged in vain . On the other hand , Pope accepted £ 1,000 from the ...
... Pope . He let it be understood that he would be willing to part with £ 4,000 if the poet would gratify him ; a single couplet was all he asked for ; but the Alderman begged in vain . On the other hand , Pope accepted £ 1,000 from the ...
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... Pope's poetic criticism of life was adequate to an extraordinary degree . Let us examine for a moment the technical instrument which Pope used - I mean the heroic couplet . When he was a young man , the poet Walsh gave Pope a piece of ...
... Pope's poetic criticism of life was adequate to an extraordinary degree . Let us examine for a moment the technical instrument which Pope used - I mean the heroic couplet . When he was a young man , the poet Walsh gave Pope a piece of ...
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Lytton Strachey. That Pope's verse is artificial there can be no doubt . But then there is only one kind of verse that is not artificial , and that is , bad verse . Yet it is true that there is a sense in which Pope's couplet is more ...
Lytton Strachey. That Pope's verse is artificial there can be no doubt . But then there is only one kind of verse that is not artificial , and that is , bad verse . Yet it is true that there is a sense in which Pope's couplet is more ...
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SHAKESPEARES FINAL PERIOD The Independent | 1 |
WORDS AND POETRY The Hogarth Press 1928 | 16 |
RABELAIS The New Statesman Feb 16 1918 CHARAC | 31 |
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