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... poem " on style and taste , which created a great stir in the literary world . Pope's warm admiration of the classical poets led him to write this poem , but he had nothing very original to say on the subject of their poetry . Still ...
... poem " on style and taste , which created a great stir in the literary world . Pope's warm admiration of the classical poets led him to write this poem , but he had nothing very original to say on the subject of their poetry . Still ...
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... poem , The Messiah , a paraphrase of several of Isaiah's most famous Messianic prophecies , especially the one in chapter xi . , which spoke of the peace which would follow the reign of the Messiah . It is in imitation of one of ...
... poem , The Messiah , a paraphrase of several of Isaiah's most famous Messianic prophecies , especially the one in chapter xi . , which spoke of the peace which would follow the reign of the Messiah . It is in imitation of one of ...
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... poems are : Queen Mab , a revolutionary poem , written in 1813. It was full of poetic feeling , but its arguments are crude and unconvincing . Alastor ( 1816 ) was a poem of more power . Prometheus Chief Poems . Unbound ( 1819 ) , a ...
... poems are : Queen Mab , a revolutionary poem , written in 1813. It was full of poetic feeling , but its arguments are crude and unconvincing . Alastor ( 1816 ) was a poem of more power . Prometheus Chief Poems . Unbound ( 1819 ) , a ...
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