Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Dent, 1925 - English poetry |
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Page 103
... poem be strictly one , whether the poem can be properly termed heroic , and who is the hero , are raised by such readers as draw their principles of judgment rather from books than from reason . Milton , though he entitled Paradise Lost ...
... poem be strictly one , whether the poem can be properly termed heroic , and who is the hero , are raised by such readers as draw their principles of judgment rather from books than from reason . Milton , though he entitled Paradise Lost ...
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... poem , on the danger of the Prince on the coast of Spain , there is a puerile and ridiculous mention of Arion at the beginning ; and the last paragraph , on the Cable , is in part ridiculously mean , and in part ridiculously tumid . The ...
... poem , on the danger of the Prince on the coast of Spain , there is a puerile and ridiculous mention of Arion at the beginning ; and the last paragraph , on the Cable , is in part ridiculously mean , and in part ridiculously tumid . The ...
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... poem on the war with Spain ; perhaps such a beginning is natural , and could not be avoided without affectation . Both Waller and Dryden might take their hint from the poem on the civil war of Rome , " Orbem jam totum , " etc. Of the ...
... poem on the war with Spain ; perhaps such a beginning is natural , and could not be avoided without affectation . Both Waller and Dryden might take their hint from the poem on the civil war of Rome , " Orbem jam totum , " etc. Of the ...
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ABRAHAM COWLEY 16181667 | 44 |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 64 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 115 |
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