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British Academy. to seek : when he is writing about poetry he is almost nowhere stating mere opinions , he is expressing convictions . He is doing that because to him poetry is of supreme importance , not merely to himself , the poet ...
British Academy. to seek : when he is writing about poetry he is almost nowhere stating mere opinions , he is expressing convictions . He is doing that because to him poetry is of supreme importance , not merely to himself , the poet ...
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... poetry , and enjoyed in the diction of Virgil and Milton what he refused to accept from Pope . The poet , he claimed , ' is a man speaking to men ' ; in the eighteenth century they would have agreed , with the one important ...
... poetry , and enjoyed in the diction of Virgil and Milton what he refused to accept from Pope . The poet , he claimed , ' is a man speaking to men ' ; in the eighteenth century they would have agreed , with the one important ...
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... poet has ever written more magnificently about poetry than Wordsworth . But to Pope and his generation poetry was primarily one of the arts , and he would have seen nothing improper in having a taste for it , or in developing that taste ...
... poet has ever written more magnificently about poetry than Wordsworth . But to Pope and his generation poetry was primarily one of the arts , and he would have seen nothing improper in having a taste for it , or in developing that taste ...
Contents
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By J H Clapham | 13 |
IMMATERIALISM Philosophical Lecture By A A Luce Read | 19 |
WORDSWORTH AND POPE Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 33 |
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