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Page 125
... strength . His strength is that of a novelist and of an eighteenth - century poet who is positively in sympathy with the Augustan tradi- tion , and it is one strength . The Augustan form , as he adapts it , is perfectly suited to his ...
... strength . His strength is that of a novelist and of an eighteenth - century poet who is positively in sympathy with the Augustan tradi- tion , and it is one strength . The Augustan form , as he adapts it , is perfectly suited to his ...
Page 228
... strength of the sonnet , though unusual in kind for Shelley , is not of remarkably distinguished quality in itself ; the kindred strength of The Mask of Anarchy is . Of this poem Professor Elton says : 1 228 REVALUATION.
... strength of the sonnet , though unusual in kind for Shelley , is not of remarkably distinguished quality in itself ; the kindred strength of The Mask of Anarchy is . Of this poem Professor Elton says : 1 228 REVALUATION.
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... strength - a native English strength - lying beyond the scope of the poet who aimed to make English as like Italian as possible . So too with the unpoetical ' plump ' : its sensuous firmness - it introduces a tactual image - repre ...
... strength - a native English strength - lying beyond the scope of the poet who aimed to make English as like Italian as possible . So too with the unpoetical ' plump ' : its sensuous firmness - it introduces a tactual image - repre ...
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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