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... poetic decorum and even sacrificed the right to be called a poet . He points to the examples of Chaucer , Dryden , and Pope , and says that if the standards of his critics are to prevail , “ an author will find comfort in his expulsion ...
... poetic decorum and even sacrificed the right to be called a poet . He points to the examples of Chaucer , Dryden , and Pope , and says that if the standards of his critics are to prevail , “ an author will find comfort in his expulsion ...
Page 112
... poetic tendencies of his time . He can be identified neither with the writers of " prospect poems " such as Grongar Hill , nor with poets such as Thomson and , later , Wordsworth , who used nature as a medium for the expression of ...
... poetic tendencies of his time . He can be identified neither with the writers of " prospect poems " such as Grongar Hill , nor with poets such as Thomson and , later , Wordsworth , who used nature as a medium for the expression of ...
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... sparsely : a few examples in Wordsworth are the only things really comparable . In respect to poetic narrative , Crabbe is to be compared with no other poet in English except Chaucer , if only 4 | CRABBE | CRABBE AS NARRATIVE POET.
... sparsely : a few examples in Wordsworth are the only things really comparable . In respect to poetic narrative , Crabbe is to be compared with no other poet in English except Chaucer , if only 4 | CRABBE | CRABBE AS NARRATIVE POET.
Contents
CRABBE AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 1 |
CRABBE IN THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 57 |
CRABBE AS NATURE POET | 88 |
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