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... whole affair , and making much ado about a relatively ordinary experience of putting together , with some facility , verses that pleased him . Dr Johnson , while leaving the celestial patroness without comment , did take seriously the ...
... whole affair , and making much ado about a relatively ordinary experience of putting together , with some facility , verses that pleased him . Dr Johnson , while leaving the celestial patroness without comment , did take seriously the ...
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... whole at the beginning of Book IX , when Wordsworth ( in revision ) describes what he has written so far as having ' Turned an returned with intricate delay ' ( 1. 8 ) . Verse is also being established as a special place , a ' there ...
... whole at the beginning of Book IX , when Wordsworth ( in revision ) describes what he has written so far as having ' Turned an returned with intricate delay ' ( 1. 8 ) . Verse is also being established as a special place , a ' there ...
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... whole bod throughout its length , is active in the mind's thoughtful scanning And the poetry is often about body . One thinks of ' Har Ploughman ' , who almost resembles a Hopkins poem , with h ' thew ' and ' sinew ' and his standing ...
... whole bod throughout its length , is active in the mind's thoughtful scanning And the poetry is often about body . One thinks of ' Har Ploughman ' , who almost resembles a Hopkins poem , with h ' thew ' and ' sinew ' and his standing ...
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Writing Paradise Lost | 1 |
La Fontaine and the Subversion of Poetry | 22 |
A Meaning for MockHeroic | 32 |
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