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... Essay on Poetry , which Dryden and Pope repeatedly praised , ends with a description of the ideal poet , who Must above TASSO's lofty flights prevail , Succeed where SPENCER , and ev'n MILTON fail.2 994 The Earl of Roscommon's Essay on ...
... Essay on Poetry , which Dryden and Pope repeatedly praised , ends with a description of the ideal poet , who Must above TASSO's lofty flights prevail , Succeed where SPENCER , and ev'n MILTON fail.2 994 The Earl of Roscommon's Essay on ...
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... Essay on Man . Much of the prosodic variety of The Seasons comes from a slighting of the stresses , one of which is passed over in nearly every line . The cesura is not managed so well ; for , though it falls in or after the first foot ...
... Essay on Man . Much of the prosodic variety of The Seasons comes from a slighting of the stresses , one of which is passed over in nearly every line . The cesura is not managed so well ; for , though it falls in or after the first foot ...
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... Essay on Poetry ( 1682 ) and Ros- common's Essay on Translated Verse ( 1684 ) , only those in the Mil- tonic measure were widely read . The first of the treatises to discard rime was Philips's Cyder ( 1708 ) , which on account of its ...
... Essay on Poetry ( 1682 ) and Ros- common's Essay on Translated Verse ( 1684 ) , only those in the Mil- tonic measure were widely read . The first of the treatises to discard rime was Philips's Cyder ( 1708 ) , which on account of its ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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