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... seems odd to have Prior considered as ' stiff ' by contrast with Pope , he certainly is so in for instance the pindarick ' Ode to the Memory of Colonel Villiers ' , which Wesley singles out as one of three pieces ' which he has taken ...
... seems odd to have Prior considered as ' stiff ' by contrast with Pope , he certainly is so in for instance the pindarick ' Ode to the Memory of Colonel Villiers ' , which Wesley singles out as one of three pieces ' which he has taken ...
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... seem to human reason unjust and unaccountable - was something borne out by every moment of waking life . The marvel is that this constant awareness did not paralyse the poet , nor did it hypnotize him so that he could not take a lively ...
... seem to human reason unjust and unaccountable - was something borne out by every moment of waking life . The marvel is that this constant awareness did not paralyse the poet , nor did it hypnotize him so that he could not take a lively ...
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... seems at first sight a clear case of that bane of eighteenth - century poetry , the superfluous because ' stock ' epithet : For one beneath the yielding stream A borrow'd axe had dropp'd . It is of the nature of streams to ' yield ...
... seems at first sight a clear case of that bane of eighteenth - century poetry , the superfluous because ' stock ' epithet : For one beneath the yielding stream A borrow'd axe had dropp'd . It is of the nature of streams to ' yield ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
EOGHAN RUADH O SUILLEBHAIN | 130 |
WILLIAM BLAKE 17571827 | 137 |
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