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... passages are less obtrusive and therefore less foolish . It may be that Ledyard , if he had lived to polish these ... passage as ' celebrated ' . So far as I can determine it could be read at that date only in the MS journal , since ...
... passages are less obtrusive and therefore less foolish . It may be that Ledyard , if he had lived to polish these ... passage as ' celebrated ' . So far as I can determine it could be read at that date only in the MS journal , since ...
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... passage after passage , ' he deplored the vicious taste of his time for a cloying smoothness in cadence , and insisted on a certain roughness in metre , a redundant syllable or a reversed foot . So , although no poet ( not even Hopkins ) ...
... passage after passage , ' he deplored the vicious taste of his time for a cloying smoothness in cadence , and insisted on a certain roughness in metre , a redundant syllable or a reversed foot . So , although no poet ( not even Hopkins ) ...
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... passage which , as Haraszti shows , has a parallel on the first page of Smith's Chapter . But it soon changes . One may usefully compare a passage about the poor man in Adams ( a passage , incidentally , which is much wrenched by Hannah ...
... passage which , as Haraszti shows , has a parallel on the first page of Smith's Chapter . But it soon changes . One may usefully compare a passage about the poor man in Adams ( a passage , incidentally , which is much wrenched by Hannah ...
Contents
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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