The Augustan VisionWeidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974 - 318 páginas |
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... poet cannot be put at higher than moderate ; but he is no contemptible charlatan to be brushed aside . A friend of ... poet after poet had celebrated the virtues of his optical discoveries , frequently couching the tribute in the ...
... poet cannot be put at higher than moderate ; but he is no contemptible charlatan to be brushed aside . A friend of ... poet after poet had celebrated the virtues of his optical discoveries , frequently couching the tribute in the ...
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... poetic undertaking . And though the greatest of directly Newtonian poets was James Thomson , works by Pope ... poet image aught so fair , ' asked Thomson , ' Or prophet , to whose rapture heaven descends ? ' The answer to these ...
... poetic undertaking . And though the greatest of directly Newtonian poets was James Thomson , works by Pope ... poet image aught so fair , ' asked Thomson , ' Or prophet , to whose rapture heaven descends ? ' The answer to these ...
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... poet attempts to call up a world of ' old Runic bards ' . But as with Gray , it is significant that Collins can only envy the minstrels of old - he cannot emulate them . There is something incestuous about the primitivist revival of the ...
... poet attempts to call up a world of ' old Runic bards ' . But as with Gray , it is significant that Collins can only envy the minstrels of old - he cannot emulate them . There is something incestuous about the primitivist revival of the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Landscape of the Age | 5 |
The Shape of Society | 7 |
Direitos de autor | |
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