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... blank verse , whereas many followers of Pope were friendly to it . As to the relative popularity of blank verse and rime , the evidence is abundant but unfortunately conflicting . Two utterances towards the close of the seventeenth ...
... blank verse , whereas many followers of Pope were friendly to it . As to the relative popularity of blank verse and rime , the evidence is abundant but unfortunately conflicting . Two utterances towards the close of the seventeenth ...
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... blank - verse poem in English except Paradise Lost ; and Milton himself had written , " This neglect then of rime is to be esteemed an example set , the first in English , of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem . " Isaac Watts had ...
... blank - verse poem in English except Paradise Lost ; and Milton himself had written , " This neglect then of rime is to be esteemed an example set , the first in English , of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem . " Isaac Watts had ...
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... blank verse in a drama was an entirely different thing from blank verse in a poem , and that to them there was but one unrimed poem , Paradise Lost , we shall better understand the powerful influ- ence which this work exerted . Blank ...
... blank verse in a drama was an entirely different thing from blank verse in a poem , and that to them there was but one unrimed poem , Paradise Lost , we shall better understand the powerful influ- ence which this work exerted . Blank ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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