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 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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... poet , " said Im- lac , " is to examine , not the individual , but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip , or describe the different shades in the verdure of the ...
... poet , " said Im- lac , " is to examine , not the individual , but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip , or describe the different shades in the verdure of the ...
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... Poet , motivated the revamping of that early poem to make it into a satire on dullness not only in poetry but in pedantic learning . Theobald was made the hero . Swift , who spent the summers of 1726 and 1727 in England , was ...
... Poet , motivated the revamping of that early poem to make it into a satire on dullness not only in poetry but in pedantic learning . Theobald was made the hero . Swift , who spent the summers of 1726 and 1727 in England , was ...
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