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... poetry of Dryden or Pope or any of the Augustans was deliberately writ- ten to their theories . The writing of poetry is always a more complex thing than any theory we may have about it . We write first and use the theory afterwards to ...
... poetry of Dryden or Pope or any of the Augustans was deliberately writ- ten to their theories . The writing of poetry is always a more complex thing than any theory we may have about it . We write first and use the theory afterwards to ...
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... poetry is less parochial than it might have been : it is resonant with echoes of other literary worlds , of larger manners and events . Minor Augustan poetry is dead for modern readers not because it was too " general , " but because it ...
... poetry is less parochial than it might have been : it is resonant with echoes of other literary worlds , of larger manners and events . Minor Augustan poetry is dead for modern readers not because it was too " general , " but because it ...
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Maynard Mack. TENSION IN ALEXANDER POPE'S POETRY Rebecca Price Parkin Poetry must not only communicate but communicate with an urgency higher than that of prose . The most obvious attribute differentiating poetry from prose , regularity ...
Maynard Mack. TENSION IN ALEXANDER POPE'S POETRY Rebecca Price Parkin Poetry must not only communicate but communicate with an urgency higher than that of prose . The most obvious attribute differentiating poetry from prose , regularity ...
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