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... sense of an ending ) but makes up for his unevenness with constant fancy and charm Sir John Denham ( 1615–69 ) in his own famous poem Cooper's Hill is by comparison packed with sense and has what the seventeenth century called ...
... sense of an ending ) but makes up for his unevenness with constant fancy and charm Sir John Denham ( 1615–69 ) in his own famous poem Cooper's Hill is by comparison packed with sense and has what the seventeenth century called ...
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... sense , or in the sense of a life - long contract sanctioned and protected by the state , it is still very strong . I know in fact very few young people , though I know some , who follow the beaten road of ' modern morals ' in Shelley's ...
... sense , or in the sense of a life - long contract sanctioned and protected by the state , it is still very strong . I know in fact very few young people , though I know some , who follow the beaten road of ' modern morals ' in Shelley's ...
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... sense of pace and pitch , of the noise that a style comes down to , is wonderfully acute . He loves poets with a similar sense , and unfashionable in his own time , like Edith Sitwell ( 1887-1964 ) and Roy Campbell ( 1901-57 ) . He ...
... sense of pace and pitch , of the noise that a style comes down to , is wonderfully acute . He loves poets with a similar sense , and unfashionable in his own time , like Edith Sitwell ( 1887-1964 ) and Roy Campbell ( 1901-57 ) . He ...
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Early Middle English Poetry | 17 |
I | 30 |
The Fifteenth Century | 63 |
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