Eighteenth-century English LiteratureGeoffrey Tillotson, Paul Fussell, Marshall Waingrow A survey of prose, poetry, and drama from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Treats major authors in depth but also includes lesser but important writers to give a completer picture of the century. |
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... poet may behave as if the whole world is his confessional , the eighteenth - century poet , like his Roman predecessors , takes a more traditional way : he conceives of his job as akin to that of the attorney at law who has a jury to ...
... poet may behave as if the whole world is his confessional , the eighteenth - century poet , like his Roman predecessors , takes a more traditional way : he conceives of his job as akin to that of the attorney at law who has a jury to ...
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... poetic kind quite unsuited to his genius . Another way in which the poet could exhibit his mastery of his art was by attending carefully to the dictional requirements of his chosen poetic kind . One of the faults Johnson finds with the ...
... poetic kind quite unsuited to his genius . Another way in which the poet could exhibit his mastery of his art was by attending carefully to the dictional requirements of his chosen poetic kind . One of the faults Johnson finds with the ...
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... Poets : Abraham Cowley ( 1618-67 ) , Meta- physical poet and essayist . 38. forgive : forego . 39. Poeta .. Poeta : " a poet " and " too much of a poet . " 40 . Catullus : a mistake for Martial ( Epigrams , III . 44 ) . 41 . auribus ...
... Poets : Abraham Cowley ( 1618-67 ) , Meta- physical poet and essayist . 38. forgive : forego . 39. Poeta .. Poeta : " a poet " and " too much of a poet . " 40 . Catullus : a mistake for Martial ( Epigrams , III . 44 ) . 41 . auribus ...
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