Essays on the Eighteenth Century, Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth BirthdayClarendon Press, 1945 - 288 pages |
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... verse paragraphs can be seen anywhere . In the Harvard manuscript of the Essay on Man , Epistle I , for example , lines 29-34 of the standard editions are placed after line 22 ; lines 61-8 come after line 28 , and are followed by lines ...
... verse paragraphs can be seen anywhere . In the Harvard manuscript of the Essay on Man , Epistle I , for example , lines 29-34 of the standard editions are placed after line 22 ; lines 61-8 come after line 28 , and are followed by lines ...
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... verse form except the Spenserian stanza . He even wrote a drama in blank verse called The Fatal Prophecy . His versatility was , in fact , his chief handicap . In one of his Fables , " The Wilding and the Broom ' , he suddenly changes ...
... verse form except the Spenserian stanza . He even wrote a drama in blank verse called The Fatal Prophecy . His versatility was , in fact , his chief handicap . In one of his Fables , " The Wilding and the Broom ' , he suddenly changes ...
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Arnold means the blank verse of Paradise Lost with its charac- teristic use of pauses , and perhaps also the diction and syntax which are sometimes latinate ) . Dr. Johnson saw clearly that [ Thomson's ] blank verse is no more the blank ...
Arnold means the blank verse of Paradise Lost with its charac- teristic use of pauses , and perhaps also the diction and syntax which are sometimes latinate ) . Dr. Johnson saw clearly that [ Thomson's ] blank verse is no more the blank ...
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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