Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... Wordsworth , like other great poets , made use of the work of writers who were not of much importance in themselves . He studied many of his eighteenth - century predecessors with care , especially if they came from the Border ...
... Wordsworth , like other great poets , made use of the work of writers who were not of much importance in themselves . He studied many of his eighteenth - century predecessors with care , especially if they came from the Border ...
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... Wordsworth could not fail to know his work and Coleridge certainly learned something from him . Yet the fact is to be noted . It is attractive to depict history as a series of dramatic fits and starts : it is more just , as well as ...
... Wordsworth could not fail to know his work and Coleridge certainly learned something from him . Yet the fact is to be noted . It is attractive to depict history as a series of dramatic fits and starts : it is more just , as well as ...
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... Wordsworth had fully recovered when he was writing ' The Old Cumberland Beggar ' : it was already a two- or three ... Wordsworth evoked when he turned his most intense personal experiences into poetry . For this is not one of his ...
... Wordsworth had fully recovered when he was writing ' The Old Cumberland Beggar ' : it was already a two- or three ... Wordsworth evoked when he turned his most intense personal experiences into poetry . For this is not one of his ...
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DAVID NICHOL SMITH From a drawing by SIR MUIRHEAD BONE Frontispiece | 15 |
DEANE SWIFT HAWKESWORTH AND THE JOURNAL TO STELLA HAROLD WILLIAMS | 33 |
POPE AT WORK GEORGE SHERBURN Harvard University | 65 |
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