Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of Authors in the English Tongue from the Earliest Times Till the Present Day, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 3Chambers, 1922 - English literature |
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... poetry , Burns . For The period of wonder in English poetry may perhaps be said to have ended with Milton . Milton , although born only twenty - three years before the first of the great poets of acceptance , Dryden , belongs properly ...
... poetry , Burns . For The period of wonder in English poetry may perhaps be said to have ended with Milton . Milton , although born only twenty - three years before the first of the great poets of acceptance , Dryden , belongs properly ...
Page 122
... poetry . Objective poetry , though it loses much in losing the interest attaching to personal poetry , has advantages of its own which , in a general way , lyrical poetry must of necessity lack . It can delight the reader's imagination ...
... poetry . Objective poetry , though it loses much in losing the interest attaching to personal poetry , has advantages of its own which , in a general way , lyrical poetry must of necessity lack . It can delight the reader's imagination ...
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... poetry only under the stress of the voice of authority , Byron is the only name among the poets of his period who is known at all , unless we except Scott , whose fame as a poet gains enormously by his fame as a prose writer . Any fresh ...
... poetry only under the stress of the voice of authority , Byron is the only name among the poets of his period who is known at all , unless we except Scott , whose fame as a poet gains enormously by his fame as a prose writer . Any fresh ...
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