The English Poets: Selections with Critical IntroductionsThomas Humphry Ward Macmillan, 1905 - English poetry |
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... writer was ever at once so varied and so serious , so voluminous and so conscien- tious . Few have been so careful about what they wrote before publication , and so careless about it afterwards . He thought that he could trust his ...
... writer was ever at once so varied and so serious , so voluminous and so conscien- tious . Few have been so careful about what they wrote before publication , and so careless about it afterwards . He thought that he could trust his ...
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... writer's mind , and the circumstances of the writing be taken into account , it may be said with truth that few criticisms at once so generous and so discerning have ever been committed to posterity by one great poet concerning another ...
... writer's mind , and the circumstances of the writing be taken into account , it may be said with truth that few criticisms at once so generous and so discerning have ever been committed to posterity by one great poet concerning another ...
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... of any of his contemporaries , and reveal more poetic pur- pose than those of any other English writer except Milton 4 THE ENGLISH POETS . Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1880 Reprinted 1883, 1887, 1892, 1896, 1899, 1905.
... of any of his contemporaries , and reveal more poetic pur- pose than those of any other English writer except Milton 4 THE ENGLISH POETS . Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1880 Reprinted 1883, 1887, 1892, 1896, 1899, 1905.
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... writer of the greatest - without rival or parallel - of all English masques . Is it inconceivable that our poets should recur , less tentatively than they have hitherto done , to a poetic form so peculiarly suitable for giving ...
... writer of the greatest - without rival or parallel - of all English masques . Is it inconceivable that our poets should recur , less tentatively than they have hitherto done , to a poetic form so peculiarly suitable for giving ...
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... writing of love , partly on the favourite poets ' plea of growing age ; and in truth his muse was comparatively a stranger to Eros . Yet the little chaplet of tributes to ' Charis ' put together by Jonson in 1624 and inserted in the ...
... writing of love , partly on the favourite poets ' plea of growing age ; and in truth his muse was comparatively a stranger to Eros . Yet the little chaplet of tributes to ' Charis ' put together by Jonson in 1624 and inserted in the ...
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