Lives of the English Poets: With an Introd. by Arthur Waugh, Volume 2Oxford University Press, 1961 - English poetry |
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... Cowley , without his wit , the dull exercises of a skilful versifier , resolved at all adventures to write something about Chloe , and trying to be amorous by dint of study . His fictions therefore are mythological . Venus , after the ...
... Cowley , without his wit , the dull exercises of a skilful versifier , resolved at all adventures to write something about Chloe , and trying to be amorous by dint of study . His fictions therefore are mythological . Venus , after the ...
Page 80
... Cowley as a model , he has attempted in some sort to rival him , and has written a Hymn to Darkness , evidently as a counter- part to Cowley's Hymn to Light . This hymn seems to be his best performance , and is , for the most part ...
... Cowley as a model , he has attempted in some sort to rival him , and has written a Hymn to Darkness , evidently as a counter- part to Cowley's Hymn to Light . This hymn seems to be his best performance , and is , for the most part ...
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... Cowley , Milton , and Pope , are distinguished among the English Poets by the early exertion of their powers ; but the works of Cowley alone were published in his childhood , and therefore of him only can it be POPE 227.
... Cowley , Milton , and Pope , are distinguished among the English Poets by the early exertion of their powers ; but the works of Cowley alone were published in his childhood , and therefore of him only can it be POPE 227.
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