Revaluation: Tradition & Development in English PoetryOne of the century's great critics, now back in print. A scrutiny of verse from Donne to Keats, showing the main lines of development in the English tradition...the essential structure. With an Introduction by Paul Dean. |
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... Jonson . 6 Ben Jonson , we know , is classical : classical ( Jonson , Milton , even Herrick ) , ' say the editors of The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse , reminding us that there are ways and ways of being classical . How ...
... Jonson . 6 Ben Jonson , we know , is classical : classical ( Jonson , Milton , even Herrick ) , ' say the editors of The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse , reminding us that there are ways and ways of being classical . How ...
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... Jonson's models is of a kind that it took Jonson's genius in the first place to incur ; if the later poets learnt from those models , they had learnt from Jonson how to do so . The achievement was such as to demand all the assertive ...
... Jonson's models is of a kind that it took Jonson's genius in the first place to incur ; if the later poets learnt from those models , they had learnt from Jonson how to do so . The achievement was such as to demand all the assertive ...
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... Jonson's , a native good sense , but it clearly has intimate relations with the impersonal urbanity and poise that ... Jonson . It took , then , Ben Jonson's powerful genius to initiate the tradition , the common heritage , into which a ...
... Jonson's , a native good sense , but it clearly has intimate relations with the impersonal urbanity and poise that ... Jonson . It took , then , Ben Jonson's powerful genius to initiate the tradition , the common heritage , into which a ...
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achievement admirable aesthetic Augustan beauty Ben Jonson bright Byron 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 Victorian virtue words Wordsworth