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... Wordsworth was in essentials so much like the earlier Puritan that he admired him so highly , was so susceptible to his influence and so capable of profiting by it.1 The two men were , indeed , as regards the fundamentals of life and ...
... Wordsworth was in essentials so much like the earlier Puritan that he admired him so highly , was so susceptible to his influence and so capable of profiting by it.1 The two men were , indeed , as regards the fundamentals of life and ...
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... Wordsworth with the eighteenth cen- tury . Yet the differences are not essential ; for the purposes , the ideals of life , and the conceptions of poetry of the two were surprisingly alike . In fundamentals Wordsworth was closer to the ...
... Wordsworth with the eighteenth cen- tury . Yet the differences are not essential ; for the purposes , the ideals of life , and the conceptions of poetry of the two were surprisingly alike . In fundamentals Wordsworth was closer to the ...
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... Wordsworth's opinion , " was amusing himself with fine fancies when his country was invaded ; how unlike Milton , who only asked himself whether he could best serve his country as a sol- dier or a statesman , and decided that he could ...
... Wordsworth's opinion , " was amusing himself with fine fancies when his country was invaded ; how unlike Milton , who only asked himself whether he could best serve his country as a sol- dier or a statesman , and decided that he could ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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