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... kind but the most popular of any kind , it naturally became the most potent influence in this style of writing . The best evidence of such influence is that Thomson made blank verse the accepted vehicle for nature poetry , and even ...
... kind but the most popular of any kind , it naturally became the most potent influence in this style of writing . The best evidence of such influence is that Thomson made blank verse the accepted vehicle for nature poetry , and even ...
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... kind . The first and most notable example of the type , however , seems to have been the delightful Coopers Hill ( 1642 ) of Sir John Denham , which was much admired in the period we are studying . The second in point of time and of ...
... kind . The first and most notable example of the type , however , seems to have been the delightful Coopers Hill ( 1642 ) of Sir John Denham , which was much admired in the period we are studying . The second in point of time and of ...
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... kind of poems that Bowles naturally wrote , and the kind he would probably have written even if he had been as ardent an admirer of his predecessor's sonnets as were Brydges and Miss Seward , whose work is , indeed , scarcely more ...
... kind of poems that Bowles naturally wrote , and the kind he would probably have written even if he had been as ardent an admirer of his predecessor's sonnets as were Brydges and Miss Seward , whose work is , indeed , scarcely more ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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