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By Edward N. Hooker I Dryden's first long narrative poem appears so simple and
lucid that nobody has seen fit to be puzzled concerning its intention. Yet its
purpose has been generally misinterpreted, and our failure to catch its main
intent has ...
By Edward N. Hooker I Dryden's first long narrative poem appears so simple and
lucid that nobody has seen fit to be puzzled concerning its intention. Yet its
purpose has been generally misinterpreted, and our failure to catch its main
intent has ...
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Mr. Ault seems to think that in any given poem only one of these possibilities
could operate; in any event, having noted that Pope undertook to correct
Broome's verses, he concludes, "It is therefore a practical certainty that Pope
himself, and not ...
Mr. Ault seems to think that in any given poem only one of these possibilities
could operate; in any event, having noted that Pope undertook to correct
Broome's verses, he concludes, "It is therefore a practical certainty that Pope
himself, and not ...
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There are, it may be added, other examples of this practice in his works. e) The
epigram, complete and perfect in its way, was in existence by July, 1717, yet Prior
did not include it in his collected poems of 1718 (published in March, 1719), ...
There are, it may be added, other examples of this practice in his works. e) The
epigram, complete and perfect in its way, was in existence by July, 1717, yet Prior
did not include it in his collected poems of 1718 (published in March, 1719), ...
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