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... significant that Pope could offer such an account : his strength as a satirist was that he lived in an age when such ... significance of this needs no further insisting on . What does need insisting on is that with this capacity for ...
... significant that Pope could offer such an account : his strength as a satirist was that he lived in an age when such ... significance of this needs no further insisting on . What does need insisting on is that with this capacity for ...
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... significant that Johnson exempted the Elegy from his general disparagement of Gray's verse ; the significance is explicit enough in the terms of his commendation : ' The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind ...
... significant that Johnson exempted the Elegy from his general disparagement of Gray's verse ; the significance is explicit enough in the terms of his commendation : ' The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind ...
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... significance of this poetry for actual living . The absence both of the specifically sexual in any recognizable form and of any sign of repression serves to emphasize this significance , the sig- nificance 170 REVALUATION.
... significance of this poetry for actual living . The absence both of the specifically sexual in any recognizable form and of any sign of repression serves to emphasize this significance , the sig- nificance 170 REVALUATION.
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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