Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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... criticism throws a bright light on the taste and aims of men of culture in that literary milieu where Johnson ... criticism . Yet in him as a critic his natural acuteness and power are perpetually manifested : they are , it may be ...
... criticism throws a bright light on the taste and aims of men of culture in that literary milieu where Johnson ... criticism . Yet in him as a critic his natural acuteness and power are perpetually manifested : they are , it may be ...
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... critic in the nation . He was not , however , merely a critic or a scholar , but a man of fashion , and , as Dennis ... Criticism he had given him more splendid * K I 770 279 praise ; and , in the opinion of his learned WILLIAM WALSH ...
... critic in the nation . He was not , however , merely a critic or a scholar , but a man of fashion , and , as Dennis ... Criticism he had given him more splendid * K I 770 279 praise ; and , in the opinion of his learned WILLIAM WALSH ...
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... criticism , sink it in the same proportion . A great writer has lately styled him " an indifferent poet , and a worse critic . " His poetry is first to be considered ; of which it must be con- fessed that it has not often those ...
... criticism , sink it in the same proportion . A great writer has lately styled him " an indifferent poet , and a worse critic . " His poetry is first to be considered ; of which it must be con- fessed that it has not often those ...
Contents
ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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