Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... poem on the Reforma- tion of Learning . . . He began too a philosophical poem in Latin , & an English tragedy of Agrippina , & some other odes , one of which , a very beautiful one , entitled Stanzas written in a Country Churchyard , he ...
... poem on the Reforma- tion of Learning . . . He began too a philosophical poem in Latin , & an English tragedy of Agrippina , & some other odes , one of which , a very beautiful one , entitled Stanzas written in a Country Churchyard , he ...
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... poem . Wordsworth is hardly correct in writing3 that ' it is the first Poem , unless perhaps Shenstone's Schoolmistress be excepted , that fairly brought the Muse into the Company of common life ' , for Stephen Duck had described the ...
... poem . Wordsworth is hardly correct in writing3 that ' it is the first Poem , unless perhaps Shenstone's Schoolmistress be excepted , that fairly brought the Muse into the Company of common life ' , for Stephen Duck had described the ...
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... poem , one theme against another , that Wordsworth achieves his poetic intensity . ' The Old Cumberland Beggar ' is one of those many poems in which the versification is incomparably the least inter- esting and least important part ...
... poem , one theme against another , that Wordsworth achieves his poetic intensity . ' The Old Cumberland Beggar ' is one of those many poems in which the versification is incomparably the least inter- esting and least important part ...
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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