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Page 134
... mode . In the finest poems of Marvell , as in those of Jonson and Herrick , we find the encounter of the sophisticated townsman with the grim reality of things as they are . Where Jonson scores most heavily is in his adaptation of the ...
... mode . In the finest poems of Marvell , as in those of Jonson and Herrick , we find the encounter of the sophisticated townsman with the grim reality of things as they are . Where Jonson scores most heavily is in his adaptation of the ...
Page 171
... mode had a function , probably a patriotic one , once upon a time . But even among epics there are gradations . The Chansons de Geste are a particularly dreary extension of the genre . La Chanson de Roland ( 12th century ) , indeed ...
... mode had a function , probably a patriotic one , once upon a time . But even among epics there are gradations . The Chansons de Geste are a particularly dreary extension of the genre . La Chanson de Roland ( 12th century ) , indeed ...
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... mode ran through the eighteenth century via Gay , Green and Dyer . But neither anapaests nor tetrameters offer the variety of rhythm necessary to what is essentially , however subversive , a mode of comedy . The times became once more ...
... mode ran through the eighteenth century via Gay , Green and Dyer . But neither anapaests nor tetrameters offer the variety of rhythm necessary to what is essentially , however subversive , a mode of comedy . The times became once more ...
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Piers Plowman through Modern Eyes I | 1 |
Experimentalist Extraordinary | 30 |
Elizabethan Poetry | 69 |
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