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... poetry , and even fastened upon that poetry his own turgid diction and contorted style . This was a particularly unfortunate legacy , for , to be effective , nature poetry must be natural . In epic and didactic works a certain amount of ...
... poetry , and even fastened upon that poetry his own turgid diction and contorted style . This was a particularly unfortunate legacy , for , to be effective , nature poetry must be natural . In epic and didactic works a certain amount of ...
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... Poetry ( 1727 , with Rolli's Remarks upon it , 1728 ) and his epic La Henriade ( 1723 , with John Lockman's translation of it into blank verse , 1732 ) , and William Hayley's rimed Essay on Epic Poetry ( 1782 , " in five epistles " with ...
... Poetry ( 1727 , with Rolli's Remarks upon it , 1728 ) and his epic La Henriade ( 1723 , with John Lockman's translation of it into blank verse , 1732 ) , and William Hayley's rimed Essay on Epic Poetry ( 1782 , " in five epistles " with ...
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... poetry not reason but imagination . It is surprising , too , to find how clearly some of them realized and expressed their wants . Joseph Warton prefaced the Odes which he published in 1746 with the declaration : The Public has been so ...
... poetry not reason but imagination . It is surprising , too , to find how clearly some of them realized and expressed their wants . Joseph Warton prefaced the Odes which he published in 1746 with the declaration : The Public has been so ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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