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... Spenser , Shakespeare , and Milton , most English writers be- fore Dryden meant little or nothing to the contemporaries of Pope and Johnson.1 Chaucer and Donne they knew to some extent , but mainly as curiosities ; Ben Jonson they ...
... Spenser , Shakespeare , and Milton , most English writers be- fore Dryden meant little or nothing to the contemporaries of Pope and Johnson.1 Chaucer and Donne they knew to some extent , but mainly as curiosities ; Ben Jonson they ...
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... Spenser , Shakespeare , and Milton , hardly any other English poetry was accessible to them . Only the / force of Wordsworth's personality and the depth of his convictions kept him from being dominated by his immediate predecessors . Is ...
... Spenser , Shakespeare , and Milton , hardly any other English poetry was accessible to them . Only the / force of Wordsworth's personality and the depth of his convictions kept him from being dominated by his immediate predecessors . Is ...
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... Spenser's Sonnets was the first occasion of my writing that species of little poems , and my first six were written in the same sort of stanza as all his and Shakespeare's are . But after that Mr. Wray brought me acquainted with the ...
... Spenser's Sonnets was the first occasion of my writing that species of little poems , and my first six were written in the same sort of stanza as all his and Shakespeare's are . But after that Mr. Wray brought me acquainted with the ...
Contents
MILTONS FAME IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 3 |
BLANK VERSE AND RIME | 44 |
PROSODY AND DICTION | 54 |
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