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... verse there persisted - often in the courtly poets themselves , Wyatt , Sidney , Ralegh - a popular strain - tough , hard - headed , forthright , critical . And something of the freedom and force with which rhythms were used in the ...
... verse there persisted - often in the courtly poets themselves , Wyatt , Sidney , Ralegh - a popular strain - tough , hard - headed , forthright , critical . And something of the freedom and force with which rhythms were used in the ...
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... verse movement . It appears to be a free adaptation of blank verse . But the modifications tend in opposite directions : towards light anapaestic runs - as an outline of darkness — and towards prose : Eyes on the watch for spear - heads ...
... verse movement . It appears to be a free adaptation of blank verse . But the modifications tend in opposite directions : towards light anapaestic runs - as an outline of darkness — and towards prose : Eyes on the watch for spear - heads ...
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... Verse , p . 31 . 3. Oxford Book of English Verse , p . 30 . pp . 33-38 4. Coleridge , Biographia Literaria , Ch . 15 ( Everyman , p . 153 ) . 5. Puttenham , quoted in Grierson and Smith , A Critical History of English Poetry , p . 78 ...
... Verse , p . 31 . 3. Oxford Book of English Verse , p . 30 . pp . 33-38 4. Coleridge , Biographia Literaria , Ch . 15 ( Everyman , p . 153 ) . 5. Puttenham , quoted in Grierson and Smith , A Critical History of English Poetry , p . 78 ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
BEN JONSON Continued | 27 |
ROSALINDS MADRIGAL | 33 |
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