Specimens of English Poetry and Prose: Wybor Poezji i Prozy Angielskiej, Volumes 1-2Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe, 1964 - English literature |
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Page 71
... poetry would have been more likely at Offa's court than at the troubled centre of Northumbria , where the long ships ... poetry . The richness of Cynewulf's work , and its high technical excellence mark his poetry as classic . The ...
... poetry would have been more likely at Offa's court than at the troubled centre of Northumbria , where the long ships ... poetry . The richness of Cynewulf's work , and its high technical excellence mark his poetry as classic . The ...
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... poetry techne mimetike , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their right to the name of poets : for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted ...
... poetry techne mimetike , an imitative art , these writers will , without great wrong , lose their right to the name of poets : for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted ...
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... poets resulted in a splendid burgeoning of both as poets . - 3 assailants : " The Lyrical Ballads " was condemned by many as inadequate poetry , by others as revolutionary , a term which , by 1798 , had be- come anathema to the English ...
... poets resulted in a splendid burgeoning of both as poets . - 3 assailants : " The Lyrical Ballads " was condemned by many as inadequate poetry , by others as revolutionary , a term which , by 1798 , had be- come anathema to the English ...
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