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... period should be represented by three separate chapters , each with a poet to it , seems to me to be all in order , and to suggest a distinctive char- acteristic of that phase of English poetry . It was not a mere temporal accident of a ...
... period should be represented by three separate chapters , each with a poet to it , seems to me to be all in order , and to suggest a distinctive char- acteristic of that phase of English poetry . It was not a mere temporal accident of a ...
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... period . It was . The period was one that could support such a conven- tion , and Pope here ( that is the point ) has the strength of his period . That the positives so magnificently asserted are asserted more than conventionally we ...
... period . It was . The period was one that could support such a conven- tion , and Pope here ( that is the point ) has the strength of his period . That the positives so magnificently asserted are asserted more than conventionally we ...
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... period - in , let us say , the age of Pope - to justify the belief that it was a flourishing period of English poetry ? There is Pope himself , a great poet and representative enough to make the period remarkable , though his greatness ...
... period - in , let us say , the age of Pope - to justify the belief that it was a flourishing period of English poetry ? There is Pope himself , a great poet and representative enough to make the period remarkable , though his greatness ...
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