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... poetic skill to help advance his career - but he would have prospered anyway . The striking thing about him is that he employs the talents of his trade to surprising creative ends . He makes poetry negotiate difficult personal rela ...
... poetic skill to help advance his career - but he would have prospered anyway . The striking thing about him is that he employs the talents of his trade to surprising creative ends . He makes poetry negotiate difficult personal rela ...
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... poetry and published his lectures ( in Latin ) in 1753 . A new interest in Orientalism springs up . Nor was the age provincial in its attitude towards the past . A fresh interest developed in older English poetry , with Spenser the ...
... poetry and published his lectures ( in Latin ) in 1753 . A new interest in Orientalism springs up . Nor was the age provincial in its attitude towards the past . A fresh interest developed in older English poetry , with Spenser the ...
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... Poetry of the Landscape , p . 122 . 5 A. C. Swinburne , ' William Collins ' , The English Poets , ed . T. H. Ward ( London , 1880 ) , III , 270-1 . CHAPTER 14 : THE LETTER - WRITERS I S. M. Brewer , Design for a Gentleman ( London ...
... Poetry of the Landscape , p . 122 . 5 A. C. Swinburne , ' William Collins ' , The English Poets , ed . T. H. Ward ( London , 1880 ) , III , 270-1 . CHAPTER 14 : THE LETTER - WRITERS I S. M. Brewer , Design for a Gentleman ( London ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Landscape of the Age | 5 |
The Shape of Society | 7 |
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