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A Reader's Guide to His Poetry Marjorie Hope Nicolson. The Education of a Poet Early in his life Milton felt himself " called , " as his theologically- minded generation would have expressed it , to be a poet . Words- worth , who had ...
A Reader's Guide to His Poetry Marjorie Hope Nicolson. The Education of a Poet Early in his life Milton felt himself " called , " as his theologically- minded generation would have expressed it , to be a poet . Words- worth , who had ...
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... poet by “ nature , ” Jonson a " learned " poet , and a poet by " “ art . " Jonson had gone further than most of his contemporaries when he con- cluded his dedicatory poem with the lines beginning , Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy ...
... poet by “ nature , ” Jonson a " learned " poet , and a poet by " “ art . " Jonson had gone further than most of his contemporaries when he con- cluded his dedicatory poem with the lines beginning , Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy ...
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... poet of another " school " to whom poetry might literally have been the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling . Milton was not only a " classical " poet ; he believed that one who would write a poem " doctrinal to a nation " must be ...
... poet of another " school " to whom poetry might literally have been the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling . Milton was not only a " classical " poet ; he believed that one who would write a poem " doctrinal to a nation " must be ...
Contents
The Education of a Poet | 3 |
Juvenilia | 22 |
The Minor Poems | 50 |
Copyright | |
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