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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... poet in the description of a beautiful gar- den , or a meadow , will please our imagination more than the place itself can please our sight . When we see death represented , we are convinced it is but fiction ; but when we hear it ...
... poet in the description of a beautiful gar- den , or a meadow , will please our imagination more than the place itself can please our sight . When we see death represented , we are convinced it is but fiction ; but when we hear it ...
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... poet , you take from him not only his licence of quidlibet audendi , but you tie him up in a straiter compass than you would a philosopher . This is in- deed Musas colere severiores . You would have him follow Nature , but he must ...
... poet , you take from him not only his licence of quidlibet audendi , but you tie him up in a straiter compass than you would a philosopher . This is in- deed Musas colere severiores . You would have him follow Nature , but he must ...
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... poet writes . Homer and Virgil have formed their plans in this view . As Greece was a collection of many governments , who suffered very much among themselves , and gave the Persian emperor , who was their common enemy , many ad ...
... poet writes . Homer and Virgil have formed their plans in this view . As Greece was a collection of many governments , who suffered very much among themselves , and gave the Persian emperor , who was their common enemy , many ad ...
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