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Page 149
... rustic life in poetry , but he was one of the first ' civilised ' poets to do so , and certainly the first to put them at the centre of a major poem . With Gray we see also how , as in Thomson and Fielding , the urge to impose one's ...
... rustic life in poetry , but he was one of the first ' civilised ' poets to do so , and certainly the first to put them at the centre of a major poem . With Gray we see also how , as in Thomson and Fielding , the urge to impose one's ...
Page 150
... rustic worth.1 Where this theme appeared at all in earlier literature , the limitations on talent were usually seen , as Gray himself at first tries to see them , to be resolved in the general levelling of death : examples are Parnell's ...
... rustic worth.1 Where this theme appeared at all in earlier literature , the limitations on talent were usually seen , as Gray himself at first tries to see them , to be resolved in the general levelling of death : examples are Parnell's ...
Page 182
... rustic poet praised his native plains : No shepherds now , in smooth alternate verse , Their country's beauty or their nymphs ' rehearse . ( 7-10 ) First , Crabbe is here in part allowing himself a historical escape from the bleakness ...
... rustic poet praised his native plains : No shepherds now , in smooth alternate verse , Their country's beauty or their nymphs ' rehearse . ( 7-10 ) First , Crabbe is here in part allowing himself a historical escape from the bleakness ...
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