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As a poet Shakespeare is almost entirely unmentioned , but that , no doubt , was due to the scheme of the series . The prefaces were to serve as preludes to the poetical text , and such an arrangement could not , obviously , include the ...
As a poet Shakespeare is almost entirely unmentioned , but that , no doubt , was due to the scheme of the series . The prefaces were to serve as preludes to the poetical text , and such an arrangement could not , obviously , include the ...
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Rhyme , he says , and says truly , is no necessary adjunct of true poetry . But perhaps , of poetry as a mental operation , metre or musick is no necessary adjunct : it is however by the musick of metre that poetry has been ...
Rhyme , he says , and says truly , is no necessary adjunct of true poetry . But perhaps , of poetry as a mental operation , metre or musick is no necessary adjunct : it is however by the musick of metre that poetry has been ...
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to implore the mercy of his Creator , and plead the merits of his Redeemer , is already in a higher state than poetry can confer . The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as , by producing something unexpected , surprises ...
to implore the mercy of his Creator , and plead the merits of his Redeemer , is already in a higher state than poetry can confer . The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as , by producing something unexpected , surprises ...
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| Title | Lives of The English Poets Volume I |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Published | 1961 |
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