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... idea that poets who used regular metres were simple people has dissolved with it . Complex , indeed , Dryden was , and therefore the more human , and ... ideas , too , were no less complicated ; a certain ideology , as we should PROLOGUE XV.
... idea that poets who used regular metres were simple people has dissolved with it . Complex , indeed , Dryden was , and therefore the more human , and ... ideas , too , were no less complicated ; a certain ideology , as we should PROLOGUE XV.
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... ideas about poetry . The old man had been in France with Waller and Denham and Cowley and the others ; inevitably problems of aesthetics were mooted in his writing , and here again his basic premises did not differ greatly from the new ...
... ideas about poetry . The old man had been in France with Waller and Denham and Cowley and the others ; inevitably problems of aesthetics were mooted in his writing , and here again his basic premises did not differ greatly from the new ...
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... ideas that Dryden came across , though his sensitivity to atmosphere was such that he had most likely noticed change in the air earlier . He did not react at once - he seldom did even as a mature man ; but the ideas of Hobbes and ...
... ideas that Dryden came across , though his sensitivity to atmosphere was such that he had most likely noticed change in the air earlier . He did not react at once - he seldom did even as a mature man ; but the ideas of Hobbes and ...
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