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... poetic task : I return to our Italian translator of the Eneis . He is a foot- poet , he lacqueys by the side of Virgil at the best , but never mounts behind him . Doctor Morelli , who is no mean critic in our poetry , and therefore may ...
... poetic task : I return to our Italian translator of the Eneis . He is a foot- poet , he lacqueys by the side of Virgil at the best , but never mounts behind him . Doctor Morelli , who is no mean critic in our poetry , and therefore may ...
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... poet , cast solidly in their mold , suffering the same fate they endured : the constant assault of favor- seekers and libelers . These opening lines accomplish more than this , however ; if half the poetic landscape of the Arbuthnot ...
... poet , cast solidly in their mold , suffering the same fate they endured : the constant assault of favor- seekers and libelers . These opening lines accomplish more than this , however ; if half the poetic landscape of the Arbuthnot ...
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... poetic life and the poetic act . Bufo and Sporus stand at the apex of a ladder of pride and disharmony that reaches far back into the poem . Just as the chaotic materials of Sporus ' talk and writings signify his interior disharmony and ...
... poetic life and the poetic act . Bufo and Sporus stand at the apex of a ladder of pride and disharmony that reaches far back into the poem . Just as the chaotic materials of Sporus ' talk and writings signify his interior disharmony and ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SATIRE | 37 |
APOLOGIA PRO VITA | 73 |
Copyright | |
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