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... original reads hwaet me gemaette to midre nihte : literally ' what I dreamt at midnight ' . A literal translation not only destroys the alliteration , it also provides only six syllables to the original ten . My translation ( ' A dream ...
... original reads hwaet me gemaette to midre nihte : literally ' what I dreamt at midnight ' . A literal translation not only destroys the alliteration , it also provides only six syllables to the original ten . My translation ( ' A dream ...
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... original without being overshadowed by it . His most overtly Shakespearean play , Boris Godunov , is also his weakest . He deliberately set out to naturalize the Shakespearean history play in a Russian setting , and to produce a model ...
... original without being overshadowed by it . His most overtly Shakespearean play , Boris Godunov , is also his weakest . He deliberately set out to naturalize the Shakespearean history play in a Russian setting , and to produce a model ...
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... original , vigorous , and elegant . ' It was , of course , a limited sort of originality that Johnson ( and later Jeffrey ) saw in Crabbe , that of a poet who , working within an established tradition , nevertheless made of it something ...
... original , vigorous , and elegant . ' It was , of course , a limited sort of originality that Johnson ( and later Jeffrey ) saw in Crabbe , that of a poet who , working within an established tradition , nevertheless made of it something ...
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RELIGIOUS ATTITUDES IN BEOWULF | 9 |
THE FORMER | 37 |
A NOTE ON CHARACTERIZATION IN OTHELLO | 52 |
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