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... critic's fantasy of what might have been . To begin with , Arnold perceived that Pope had ' a quick and darting spirit ... Criticism Second Series , 1888 , p . 40 . got clear of eighteenth - century poetry . Most nineteenth EIGHTEENTH ...
... critic's fantasy of what might have been . To begin with , Arnold perceived that Pope had ' a quick and darting spirit ... Criticism Second Series , 1888 , p . 40 . got clear of eighteenth - century poetry . Most nineteenth EIGHTEENTH ...
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... criticism of life , from men whose criticism of life has a high seriousness , or even , without that high seriousness , has poetic largeness , freedom , insight , benignity ? Do you ask me whether the application of ideas to life in the ...
... criticism of life , from men whose criticism of life has a high seriousness , or even , without that high seriousness , has poetic largeness , freedom , insight , benignity ? Do you ask me whether the application of ideas to life in the ...
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... Criticism ' , vol . iii , pp . 1713- 17. This and the following article were reprinted in Nelson's En- cyclopaedia ( 1911-12 ) , vol . vii , pp . 349–57 ( ' Criticism ' ) , and vol . i , pp . 409-11 ( ' Ancients and Moderns ...
... Criticism ' , vol . iii , pp . 1713- 17. This and the following article were reprinted in Nelson's En- cyclopaedia ( 1911-12 ) , vol . vii , pp . 349–57 ( ' Criticism ' ) , and vol . i , pp . 409-11 ( ' Ancients and Moderns ...
Contents
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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