Essays on the Eighteenth Century, Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth BirthdayClarendon Press, 1945 - 288 pages |
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... imaginative and descriptive writing ; peculiar , that is , when compared with the imaginative and descriptive writing of ... imagination had been specially active : devising fanciful situations in the Pastorals and The Rape of the Lock ...
... imaginative and descriptive writing ; peculiar , that is , when compared with the imaginative and descriptive writing of ... imagination had been specially active : devising fanciful situations in the Pastorals and The Rape of the Lock ...
Page 73
... imagination . If there is petulance there , it is petulance recollected in tran- quillity . In these and in many a more extensive passage in the Dunciad , Pope is working at two levels . At one level he is avenging the wrongs done to ...
... imagination . If there is petulance there , it is petulance recollected in tran- quillity . In these and in many a more extensive passage in the Dunciad , Pope is working at two levels . At one level he is avenging the wrongs done to ...
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... imagination , will and knowledge , and a unity in time , ' the child is father of the man ' . The first kind can most easily be illustrated negatively . Its collapse is told most vividly in those lines which describe the divorce between ...
... imagination , will and knowledge , and a unity in time , ' the child is father of the man ' . The first kind can most easily be illustrated negatively . Its collapse is told most vividly in those lines which describe the divorce between ...
Contents
THE CONCISENESS OF SWIFT HERBERT DAVIS Smith College | 33 |
THE INSPIRATION OF POPES POETRY JOHN BUTT Bedford | 65 |
WHERE ONCE STOOD THEIR PLAIN HOMELY DWELL | 80 |
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