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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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The disappearance of the royalist symbol in its traditional connotation from Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes is not merely a " literary ” phenomenon , a detached problem in craftsmanship — it reflects a change in the social order ...
The disappearance of the royalist symbol in its traditional connotation from Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes is not merely a " literary ” phenomenon , a detached problem in craftsmanship — it reflects a change in the social order ...
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Sheridan inherited a great part of the burlesque tradition ; but what he inherited he perfected , and like all the great burlesque writers he added his own contributions to the tradition processions and the patriotic joke in particular ...
Sheridan inherited a great part of the burlesque tradition ; but what he inherited he perfected , and like all the great burlesque writers he added his own contributions to the tradition processions and the patriotic joke in particular ...
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