Milton's Art of ProsodyBlackwell, 1953 - 147 pages |
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... poet may not be considering line by line whether to write in trochees or dactyls as such ; but he is obliged to decide ... poetry which confines itself to an appreciation of the matter , and how well it fashions a ' highly sensuous and ...
... poet may not be considering line by line whether to write in trochees or dactyls as such ; but he is obliged to decide ... poetry which confines itself to an appreciation of the matter , and how well it fashions a ' highly sensuous and ...
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... poetry are the only standards by which they shall judge everyone else's . T. S. Eliot betrayed himself in two remarkable sentences which he wrote within a few lines of each other in a Note that is now notorious : Milton's poetry could ...
... poetry are the only standards by which they shall judge everyone else's . T. S. Eliot betrayed himself in two remarkable sentences which he wrote within a few lines of each other in a Note that is now notorious : Milton's poetry could ...
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Samuel Ernest Sprott. considering specifically the composition of ' The Line ' in his poetry . The subjects of poetry ... Poets have ap- parelled their poeticall inuentions in that numbrous kinde of writing which is called verse . · • 1 ...
Samuel Ernest Sprott. considering specifically the composition of ' The Line ' in his poetry . The subjects of poetry ... Poets have ap- parelled their poeticall inuentions in that numbrous kinde of writing which is called verse . · • 1 ...
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