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Page 81
... Pope who , having wavered towards a near - deism in the Essay on Man , recanted it in The Dunciad . ' It may be that this represents a change of heart in Pope ; but equally well it may witness to a sort of quite legitimate ...
... Pope who , having wavered towards a near - deism in the Essay on Man , recanted it in The Dunciad . ' It may be that this represents a change of heart in Pope ; but equally well it may witness to a sort of quite legitimate ...
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... Pope gets this quality as an echo from Horace ; Horace from the Alexandrians . ' This is certainly excessive . For one thing , Pope held so far as he could by the Renaissance principle of decorum , and adjusted his style according as he ...
... Pope gets this quality as an echo from Horace ; Horace from the Alexandrians . ' This is certainly excessive . For one thing , Pope held so far as he could by the Renaissance principle of decorum , and adjusted his style according as he ...
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... Pope and Dryden , both of whom appealed back to Denham in the same way . In fact of course the tradition was much older ; Carew , long before , had extolled Donne as ' masculine ' , and Suckling had told Godolphin ' not to write so ...
... Pope and Dryden , both of whom appealed back to Denham in the same way . In fact of course the tradition was much older ; Carew , long before , had extolled Donne as ' masculine ' , and Suckling had told Godolphin ' not to write so ...
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Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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