Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... poet's . A quotation from Guardian No. 12 , a paper which has been attributed to Pope , 2 may serve to reinforce this : But over and above a just Painting of Nature , a learned Reader will find a new Beauty superádded in a happy ...
... poet's . A quotation from Guardian No. 12 , a paper which has been attributed to Pope , 2 may serve to reinforce this : But over and above a just Painting of Nature , a learned Reader will find a new Beauty superádded in a happy ...
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... poet , without needing to draw either argument or authority from the professed philosophers . But we are drifting towards major poetry . One last word for our minor poets . Their attraction is not merely antiquarian . Good poetry , even ...
... poet , without needing to draw either argument or authority from the professed philosophers . But we are drifting towards major poetry . One last word for our minor poets . Their attraction is not merely antiquarian . Good poetry , even ...
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... poet : that of commanding this ' magic ' into being , and that of limiting its life to the service of the larger matter in hand . VIII Arnold does not seem to have given Pope's poetry the atten- tion necessary for experiencing it as it ...
... poet : that of commanding this ' magic ' into being , and that of limiting its life to the service of the larger matter in hand . VIII Arnold does not seem to have given Pope's poetry the atten- tion necessary for experiencing it as it ...
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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