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... tion he represents may be said to bring into poetry the full vitality of the age . For his later contemporaries and their successors the situation had changed for the worse . In the Augustan heyday there was an extraordinary ...
... tion he represents may be said to bring into poetry the full vitality of the age . For his later contemporaries and their successors the situation had changed for the worse . In the Augustan heyday there was an extraordinary ...
Page 125
... tion , and it is one strength . The Augustan form , as he adapts it , is perfectly suited to his matter and to his outlook - matter and outlook that have close affinities with Jane Austen's , though he has a range and a generous ...
... tion , and it is one strength . The Augustan form , as he adapts it , is perfectly suited to his matter and to his outlook - matter and outlook that have close affinities with Jane Austen's , though he has a range and a generous ...
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... tion , are hardly distinguished poetry . And the associa- tion in general of these patriotic - moral habits with a settled addiction to Miltonizing has to be noted as ( in the poet of the Lyrical Ballads ) significant . It is not that ...
... tion , are hardly distinguished poetry . And the associa- tion in general of these patriotic - moral habits with a settled addiction to Miltonizing has to be noted as ( in the poet of the Lyrical Ballads ) significant . It is not that ...
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