Eighteenth Century Poetry & ProseLouis Ignatius Bredvold Ronald Press Company, 1956 - 1274 pagini The purpose os this volume is to provide representative selections from English prose and poetry of the eighteenth century for undergraduate courses in that period. In this second edition of the anthology the editors have expanded the contents considerably. Additions have been made from Addison, Pope, Swift, Young, Smart, Burke, and Reynolds, with Blake's comments. The extensive notes and introductions should assist the beginning student to understand the texts, but it is hoped that they will also lead him to explore further in the works listed in the bibliographies. |
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... poem ? Those who will not give it that title , may call it ( if they please ) a divine poem . It will be suf- ficient to its perfection , if it has in it all the beauties of the highest kind of poetry ; and as for those who allege it is ...
... poem ? Those who will not give it that title , may call it ( if they please ) a divine poem . It will be suf- ficient to its perfection , if it has in it all the beauties of the highest kind of poetry ; and as for those who allege it is ...
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... poem which was designed to celebrate the original of the Roman empire , has described the birth of its great rival , the Carthaginian common- wealth : Milton with the like art in his poem on the Fall of Man , has re- lated the fall of ...
... poem which was designed to celebrate the original of the Roman empire , has described the birth of its great rival , the Carthaginian common- wealth : Milton with the like art in his poem on the Fall of Man , has re- lated the fall of ...
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... poem was his in the Dis- course concerning Satire ( 1693 ) . Nevertheless there have recently been ill - advised attempts to deny his authorship ; for a summary of this and related discussions of the poem the reader is referred to the ...
... poem was his in the Dis- course concerning Satire ( 1693 ) . Nevertheless there have recently been ill - advised attempts to deny his authorship ; for a summary of this and related discussions of the poem the reader is referred to the ...
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