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... Poets , xii . 135 ) , " Like Milton , then , though in more polish'd strains , " or that of A. Betson , who calls Pope " the most perfect Poet we ever had in this Nation " ( Miscellaneous Dissertations , 1751 , p . 86 , and cf. pp . 88 ...
... Poets , xii . 135 ) , " Like Milton , then , though in more polish'd strains , " or that of A. Betson , who calls Pope " the most perfect Poet we ever had in this Nation " ( Miscellaneous Dissertations , 1751 , p . 86 , and cf. pp . 88 ...
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... poet chose the sublimest of themes and handled it in the loftiest of styles ; the later one usually dealt in a simple way with wild - flowers , birds , his own quiet life and that of the peasants about him . Not only as a poet but as a ...
... poet chose the sublimest of themes and handled it in the loftiest of styles ; the later one usually dealt in a simple way with wild - flowers , birds , his own quiet life and that of the peasants about him . Not only as a poet but as a ...
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... poet and that only deep feeling and hard labor removed . — Admirers of Wordsworth are likely to regard as his most charac- teristic blank verse one that shows practically no traces of Milton's influence , the kind found in Tintern Abbey ...
... poet and that only deep feeling and hard labor removed . — Admirers of Wordsworth are likely to regard as his most charac- teristic blank verse one that shows practically no traces of Milton's influence , the kind found in Tintern Abbey ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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