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... produced . " Indeed , John Wesley mentions this as a common opinion . " Of all the Poems which have hitherto appeared in the World , in whatever Age or Nation , " he writes , carefully weighing his words , " the Preference has generally ...
... produced . " Indeed , John Wesley mentions this as a common opinion . " Of all the Poems which have hitherto appeared in the World , in whatever Age or Nation , " he writes , carefully weighing his words , " the Preference has generally ...
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... producing good English hexameters . " 2 Well , sixty more years have passed and they have not yet been produced ! Except for Southey's far from successful Vision of Judge- ment , Clough's humorous Bothie of Tober - na - Vuolich , and ...
... producing good English hexameters . " 2 Well , sixty more years have passed and they have not yet been produced ! Except for Southey's far from successful Vision of Judge- ment , Clough's humorous Bothie of Tober - na - Vuolich , and ...
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... produced quatorzains on any occasion or none , and with as little effort as if he were dictating a letter . When he had thus ceased to exert himself over them , he found any difficulty they presented irksome , and as a result grew ...
... produced quatorzains on any occasion or none , and with as little effort as if he were dictating a letter . When he had thus ceased to exert himself over them , he found any difficulty they presented irksome , and as a result grew ...
Contents
MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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admired Aeneid Allegro ANON appeared bard beauty blank verse borrowings Bowles Coleridge Comus couplets Cowper Crit Critical death Della Cruscans descriptive diction Dunciad Edin edition eighteenth century Elizabethan English Poets epic Essay Gray Grongar Hill heaven heroic heroic couplets hill Homer Hymn Iliad imitation of Milton's influence Italian JAMES JOHN Joseph Warton Keats language later letter Lofft's Laura Lycidas lyric melancholy meter Milton minor poems Miscellany Miss Seward Monody Muse nature o'er octosyllabics Odyssey Oxford P. L. ii P. L. vii Paradise Lost passages pauses Penseroso Petrarchan phrases pieces Poetical poetry Pope Pope's popular praise preface prose prosody published quatorzains quoted rime rime-scheme Samson seems seen song Southey Spenser stanza style sweet thee Thomas Thomas Warton Thomson thou tion trans translation unrimed viii volume Warton WILLIAM wings words Wordsworth writers written wrote