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... doubt provided for the common reader of 1807 a convenient and accessible portal through which to approach the new poem . The couplet , at least , was nothing new . It was no doubt a feeling of the reaffirmation of the tradition of ...
... doubt provided for the common reader of 1807 a convenient and accessible portal through which to approach the new poem . The couplet , at least , was nothing new . It was no doubt a feeling of the reaffirmation of the tradition of ...
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... doubt ? " Why teach the children of the poor to read , " That a new race of doubters may succeed ? " Now can you scarcely rule the stubborn crew , " And what if they should know as much as you ? . These were his favourite subjects ...
... doubt ? " Why teach the children of the poor to read , " That a new race of doubters may succeed ? " Now can you scarcely rule the stubborn crew , " And what if they should know as much as you ? . These were his favourite subjects ...
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... doubt felt the problem too difficult and complicated to bring into poetry which was never primarily concerned with " problems " as such.28 At any rate , the closest he comes to pre- senting agrarian problems is his example of the evils ...
... doubt felt the problem too difficult and complicated to bring into poetry which was never primarily concerned with " problems " as such.28 At any rate , the closest he comes to pre- senting agrarian problems is his example of the evils ...
Contents
CRABBE AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 1 |
CRABBE IN THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 57 |
CRABBE AS NATURE POET | 88 |
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