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Page 62
... writers on versification , feeling the limitations of the heroic couplet and of the orthodox ideas of prosody , strove for greater liberty and variety . But , some one asks , if these men liked both rime and freedom , why did they not ...
... writers on versification , feeling the limitations of the heroic couplet and of the orthodox ideas of prosody , strove for greater liberty and variety . But , some one asks , if these men liked both rime and freedom , why did they not ...
Page 121
... writers in this survey , we have found very few Miltonic poems with which even scholars are familiar , and , except for the Splendid Shilling and Cyder , none that appear to have at- tracted much of any attention even in their own day ...
... writers in this survey , we have found very few Miltonic poems with which even scholars are familiar , and , except for the Splendid Shilling and Cyder , none that appear to have at- tracted much of any attention even in their own day ...
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... writers of blank verse . Even the cold , fastidi- ous Akenside made use of them , and in the unrimed work of Shen- stone , who lacked neither taste nor discernment , their peculiarities are far more conspicuous than in The Seasons ...
... writers of blank verse . Even the cold , fastidi- ous Akenside made use of them , and in the unrimed work of Shen- stone , who lacked neither taste nor discernment , their peculiarities are far more conspicuous than in The Seasons ...
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MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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