Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 9British Academy, 1976 - Humanities |
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... poem derided : I have seen a young critic say that a French prose trans- lation of it was finer than the original . It is not possible in my judgement to go wider of the critical mark . The truth is that neither this nor the others ...
... poem derided : I have seen a young critic say that a French prose trans- lation of it was finer than the original . It is not possible in my judgement to go wider of the critical mark . The truth is that neither this nor the others ...
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... poem which refutes it by acknowledging and glorying in its truth . With the possible exception of the Odes of Horace , Gray's Elegy is of all poems in the world the most signal proof of the great part played by common- place in poetry ...
... poem which refutes it by acknowledging and glorying in its truth . With the possible exception of the Odes of Horace , Gray's Elegy is of all poems in the world the most signal proof of the great part played by common- place in poetry ...
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... poem it most resembles is Marlowe's Dr. Faustus ( which Byron never read nor saw ' ) , the finest things in which are greater poetically and dramatically than Byron's poem . But as Faustus is torn between two moods , lust of knowledge ...
... poem it most resembles is Marlowe's Dr. Faustus ( which Byron never read nor saw ' ) , the finest things in which are greater poetically and dramatically than Byron's poem . But as Faustus is torn between two moods , lust of knowledge ...
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ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191819 | 19 |
RALEIGH LECTURE ON HISTORY 1920 THE BRITISH SOLDIER | 29 |
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 191920 | 31 |
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