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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... poetry in prose seems to have been in 20 the Miletian tales , which were a sort of little pastoral romances ; and though much in request in old Greece and Rome , yet we have no examples that I know of them , unless it be the Longi ...
... poetry in prose seems to have been in 20 the Miletian tales , which were a sort of little pastoral romances ; and though much in request in old Greece and Rome , yet we have no examples that I know of them , unless it be the Longi ...
Pagina 140
... poetry was not without some charms , especially those of grace and sweetness , and the ore begun to shine in the hands and works of the first re- finers . Petrarch , Ronsard , Spenser met with much applause upon the subjects of love ...
... poetry was not without some charms , especially those of grace and sweetness , and the ore begun to shine in the hands and works of the first re- finers . Petrarch , Ronsard , Spenser met with much applause upon the subjects of love ...
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... poetry . Although there may seem to be some appearance of reason for the present contempt of it as managed by the most part of our modern writers , yet that any man should seriously declare against that divine art is really amazing . It ...
... poetry . Although there may seem to be some appearance of reason for the present contempt of it as managed by the most part of our modern writers , yet that any man should seriously declare against that divine art is really amazing . It ...
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