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... Mac Flecknoe ( the comparison may not seem fair , but would it , whatever passage of Dryden were chosen :) . Above every line of Pope we can imagine a tensely flexible and complex curve , repre- senting the modulation , emphasis and ...
... Mac Flecknoe ( the comparison may not seem fair , but would it , whatever passage of Dryden were chosen :) . Above every line of Pope we can imagine a tensely flexible and complex curve , repre- senting the modulation , emphasis and ...
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... Mac Flecknoe . It has a greater intensity ( an intensity that Dryden , with his virtues of good humour and good nature , was in- capable of ) , and this is manifest in the much tauter and more sensitive verse , the finer life of the ...
... Mac Flecknoe . It has a greater intensity ( an intensity that Dryden , with his virtues of good humour and good nature , was in- capable of ) , and this is manifest in the much tauter and more sensitive verse , the finer life of the ...
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... Mac Flecknoe in which Dryden uses Cowley may be set , not to Pope's disadvantage , this from the fourth book of the Dunciad : When Dullness , smiling , — Thus revive the Wits ! But murder first , and mince them all to bits ; As erst ...
... Mac Flecknoe in which Dryden uses Cowley may be set , not to Pope's disadvantage , this from the fourth book of the Dunciad : When Dullness , smiling , — Thus revive the Wits ! But murder first , and mince them all to bits ; As erst ...
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Revaluation: Tradition & Development in English Poetry F R (Frank Raymond) 1895-1 Leavis No preview available - 2021 |
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