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He turned primarily to plays ( with attendant excursions into literary criticism ) during 1666 through 1681 , when the political satire Absalom and Achitophel heralded a new strain of poetic form . Dryden had been appointed poet ...
He turned primarily to plays ( with attendant excursions into literary criticism ) during 1666 through 1681 , when the political satire Absalom and Achitophel heralded a new strain of poetic form . Dryden had been appointed poet ...
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The most sensible course is to recognize that tradition itself is nothing more or less than great poetry . Whatever poetry has the truth and beauty to live beyond its own time establishes a place for itself in the line of tradition .
The most sensible course is to recognize that tradition itself is nothing more or less than great poetry . Whatever poetry has the truth and beauty to live beyond its own time establishes a place for itself in the line of tradition .
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[ 1933 ] T. S. Eliot The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ( London : Faber and Faber , 1955 ) , pp . 88-89 .. My first concern must be to vindicate the high value of Shelley's poetry . It is curious that all these detractors of ...
[ 1933 ] T. S. Eliot The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ( London : Faber and Faber , 1955 ) , pp . 88-89 .. My first concern must be to vindicate the high value of Shelley's poetry . It is curious that all these detractors of ...
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