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... Prior is that at his hands the valuable urbanity was regained - yet with a difference , all the difference involved in passing from an aristocratic to a bourgeois society . This is to claim for Prior in verse what has been often claimed ...
... Prior is that at his hands the valuable urbanity was regained - yet with a difference , all the difference involved in passing from an aristocratic to a bourgeois society . This is to claim for Prior in verse what has been often claimed ...
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... Prior's precedent in talking ' a little like folks of this world ' was momentous . And this explains why Cowper should have exploded in indignation at Johnson's treatment of Prior in his Lives of the Poets , and why John Wesley should ...
... Prior's precedent in talking ' a little like folks of this world ' was momentous . And this explains why Cowper should have exploded in indignation at Johnson's treatment of Prior in his Lives of the Poets , and why John Wesley should ...
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... Prior for his lack of seriousness as well as his High Church sentiments . Prior's wittily evasive letters to her , written in 1704 , have been published . 9-10 , imitated by Charles Wesley , ' Captain of Israel's Host and Guide ' : ' As ...
... Prior for his lack of seriousness as well as his High Church sentiments . Prior's wittily evasive letters to her , written in 1704 , have been published . 9-10 , imitated by Charles Wesley , ' Captain of Israel's Host and Guide ' : ' As ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
EOGHAN RUADH O SUILLEBHAIN | 130 |
WILLIAM BLAKE 17571827 | 137 |
Copyright | |
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