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... pleasure , a willingness to subordinate and even suppress what is merely personal or private in favour of the generally interesting and the universally intelligible , the avoidance of mere display , and the conscious imitation of the ...
... pleasure , a willingness to subordinate and even suppress what is merely personal or private in favour of the generally interesting and the universally intelligible , the avoidance of mere display , and the conscious imitation of the ...
Page 115
... pleasure of the thing.'2 Nature and sorrow and tenderness the Elegy surely has . Of poetical ornament I cannot think it - Johnson's criticisms notwith- standing lavish . Into the conclusion of the poem , however , into what Landor calls ...
... pleasure of the thing.'2 Nature and sorrow and tenderness the Elegy surely has . Of poetical ornament I cannot think it - Johnson's criticisms notwith- standing lavish . Into the conclusion of the poem , however , into what Landor calls ...
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... pleasure , but he did not invent it . The thoughts and feelings were not peculiar to Wordsworth , else he would be a lesser poet . The eventual failure of the poem might be justly ascribed to the same causes as its success . The style ...
... pleasure , but he did not invent it . The thoughts and feelings were not peculiar to Wordsworth , else he would be a lesser poet . The eventual failure of the poem might be justly ascribed to the same causes as its success . The style ...
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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