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... achievement that Carew's art represents . The indebtedness to Jonson's models is of a kind that it took Jonson's genius in the first place to incur ; if the later poets learnt from those models , they had learnt from Jonson how to do so ...
... achievement that Carew's art represents . The indebtedness to Jonson's models is of a kind that it took Jonson's genius in the first place to incur ; if the later poets learnt from those models , they had learnt from Jonson how to do so ...
Page 69
... achievement being so varied , I can hardly pretend to attempt more than this . Keeping in view the purpose of the book and the necessary limits of space , I can aim at little more than to suggest coercively the re - orientation from ...
... achievement being so varied , I can hardly pretend to attempt more than this . Keeping in view the purpose of the book and the necessary limits of space , I can aim at little more than to suggest coercively the re - orientation from ...
Page 103
... achievement was to crystallize into distinguished expression the conven- tional poetizing of the meditative - melancholic line of versifiers who drew their inspiration so largely from the minor poems of Milton ; and he may be said to ...
... achievement was to crystallize into distinguished expression the conven- tional poetizing of the meditative - melancholic line of versifiers who drew their inspiration so largely from the minor poems of Milton ; and he may be said to ...
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achievement admirable aesthetic Augustan beauty Ben Jonson bright Carew characteristic civilization Coleridge complete contemplation contrast course critical decorum Donne Dryden Dunciad effect eighteenth century Elegy Eliot emotional English poetry essay essential fact feeling flowers genius Gray's heart Heaven human Hyperion idiom imagery imagination insistence inspiration intelligence Jonson Keats Keats's kind less light literary living Lycidas lyrical Lytton Strachey Mac Flecknoe Marvell's Matthew Arnold merely Metaphysical Milton mind mode Mont Blanc moral movement nature ness Nightingale Note o'er obvious offered Oxford Book Paradise Lost passage phrase plain poem poet poetic polite Pope Pope's present prose realized relation representative rich Romantic Samson Agonistes satiric seems sense sensibility sensuous Shakespeare Shelley Shelley's significant solemn song soul spirit stanza strength stress subtle suggest sweet taste Tennyson thee things thou thought Tintern Abbey tion tone tradition turn uncon Victorian virtues words Wordsworth