Essays on the Eighteenth Century: Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday |
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... verse . On this page Pope jotted down ideas in both verse and prose . Like so many others from Pope's workshop , it is a tantalizing confusion of fragments , with prose at the top and bottom of the page and fragments of verse in between ...
... verse . On this page Pope jotted down ideas in both verse and prose . Like so many others from Pope's workshop , it is a tantalizing confusion of fragments , with prose at the top and bottom of the page and fragments of verse in between ...
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... verse paragraphs can be seen anywhere . In the Harvard manuscript of the Essay on Man , Epistle I , for example , lines 29-34 of the standard editions are placed after line 22 ; lines 61-8 come after line 28 , and are followed by lines ...
... verse paragraphs can be seen anywhere . In the Harvard manuscript of the Essay on Man , Epistle I , for example , lines 29-34 of the standard editions are placed after line 22 ; lines 61-8 come after line 28 , and are followed by lines ...
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... verse form except the Spenserian stanza . He even wrote a drama in blank verse called The Fatal Prophecy . His versatility was , in fact , his chief handicap . In one of his Fables , ' The Wilding and the Broom ' , he suddenly changes ...
... verse form except the Spenserian stanza . He even wrote a drama in blank verse called The Fatal Prophecy . His versatility was , in fact , his chief handicap . In one of his Fables , ' The Wilding and the Broom ' , he suddenly changes ...
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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