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... question ' thrown where ? ' In fact , this question is so unexciting that we don't even ask it ; so that ' Into th ' Euboic Sea ' hangs superfluous - the sentence could just as well have ended where the line ends , after ' threw ' . As ...
... question ' thrown where ? ' In fact , this question is so unexciting that we don't even ask it ; so that ' Into th ' Euboic Sea ' hangs superfluous - the sentence could just as well have ended where the line ends , after ' threw ' . As ...
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... questions : Am I , in my next play , to observe the unities ? Am I to take Corneille for my model , or Shakespeare ? Posed in this fashion , the question of French versus English drama could have come to life ; for it would have taken ...
... questions : Am I , in my next play , to observe the unities ? Am I to take Corneille for my model , or Shakespeare ? Posed in this fashion , the question of French versus English drama could have come to life ; for it would have taken ...
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... question of degree : and this is how the question is seen today . But Dryden thinks in another dimension altogether , in terms of ' high ' and ' low ' , as well as ' near ' and ' far ' . So he can say ' heroic rhyme is nearest Nature ...
... question of degree : and this is how the question is seen today . But Dryden thinks in another dimension altogether , in terms of ' high ' and ' low ' , as well as ' near ' and ' far ' . So he can say ' heroic rhyme is nearest Nature ...
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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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