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... wrote the iambic pentameter line , seem to have largely disappeared when he wrote in lighter lyric meters , with ( presumably ) the help of musical accompaniment . There is nothing tentative or awkward about this ( one can safely ...
... wrote the iambic pentameter line , seem to have largely disappeared when he wrote in lighter lyric meters , with ( presumably ) the help of musical accompaniment . There is nothing tentative or awkward about this ( one can safely ...
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... wrote for the public stage and aimed at popu- lar success rather than Court favor . Like Lyly , he taught Shakespeare something about comedy , his plays being the first English examples of the genre to which critics have given the name ...
... wrote for the public stage and aimed at popu- lar success rather than Court favor . Like Lyly , he taught Shakespeare something about comedy , his plays being the first English examples of the genre to which critics have given the name ...
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... wrote another poem quite in this style . His ode on the Passion , written soon afterward in an endeavor to continue the religious series , was left unfinished after eight labored stanzas ; “ this subject the author finding to be above ...
... wrote another poem quite in this style . His ode on the Passion , written soon afterward in an endeavor to continue the religious series , was left unfinished after eight labored stanzas ; “ this subject the author finding to be above ...
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CHAPTER PAGE 1 ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE | 3 |
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