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... EPIC AND BURLESQUE POETRY THE EPIC THE BURLESQUE XIV . TRANSLATIONS OF THE CLASSICS XV . TECHNICAL TREATISES IN VERSE XVI . PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS POETRY PHILOSOPHICAL RELIGIOUS 236 276 276 315 323 359 382 382 402 PART III THE ...
... EPIC AND BURLESQUE POETRY THE EPIC THE BURLESQUE XIV . TRANSLATIONS OF THE CLASSICS XV . TECHNICAL TREATISES IN VERSE XVI . PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS POETRY PHILOSOPHICAL RELIGIOUS 236 276 276 315 323 359 382 382 402 PART III THE ...
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... epic as " a poem that every one talks about and no one reads . " Conditions may be better in Great Britain and her colo- nies ; yet within the last decade an English author has likened Milton to " the colossal image of some god in a ...
... epic as " a poem that every one talks about and no one reads . " Conditions may be better in Great Britain and her colo- nies ; yet within the last decade an English author has likened Milton to " the colossal image of some god in a ...
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... epic . If so , they must have borrowed most of their copies , for Spenser's poem appeared only seven times in the same period . Shakespeare , 1 W. L. Phelps , Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement ( Boston , 1893 ) , 87 . 2 ...
... epic . If so , they must have borrowed most of their copies , for Spenser's poem appeared only seven times in the same period . Shakespeare , 1 W. L. Phelps , Beginnings of the English Romantic Movement ( Boston , 1893 ) , 87 . 2 ...
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... epic was characterized by a leading critic as " the greatest Poem that ever was written by Man , " and as late as 1796 , when it was described as " the noblest poem , perhaps , that ever the wit of man produced . " Indeed , John Wesley ...
... epic was characterized by a leading critic as " the greatest Poem that ever was written by Man , " and as late as 1796 , when it was described as " the noblest poem , perhaps , that ever the wit of man produced . " Indeed , John Wesley ...
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... epic as " a poem which , considered with respect to design , may claim the first place , and with respect to per- formance the second , among the productions of the human mind . " : Goldsmith , too , though he shared many of Johnson's ...
... epic as " a poem which , considered with respect to design , may claim the first place , and with respect to per- formance the second , among the productions of the human mind . " : Goldsmith , too , though he shared many of Johnson's ...
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