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... Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to . We who live in the days of writing by rule , are apt to try every composition by those laws which we have been taught to think the sole criterion of excellence . Critical taste is ...
... Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to . We who live in the days of writing by rule , are apt to try every composition by those laws which we have been taught to think the sole criterion of excellence . Critical taste is ...
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... Spenser's work is great not because of its beauty , its art , but mainly because it furnishes the mind with a ... Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to ; " yet he does so judge them . He lets his condemnation of Spenser's ...
... Spenser's work is great not because of its beauty , its art , but mainly because it furnishes the mind with a ... Spenser by precepts which they did not attend to ; " yet he does so judge them . He lets his condemnation of Spenser's ...
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... Spenser ? Are these things the base of great poetry ? Should the Faerie Queene be judged as a classi epic ? How serious are the defects that have been pointed out i its plan ? What effect did Spenser try to secure ? Did he choos the ...
... Spenser ? Are these things the base of great poetry ? Should the Faerie Queene be judged as a classi epic ? How serious are the defects that have been pointed out i its plan ? What effect did Spenser try to secure ? Did he choos the ...
Contents
istolary Technique in Richardsons Novels 1 | 198 |
he Muse of Satire 2 | 218 |
he Search for English Literary Documents 23 | 232 |
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