The Offensive Art: The Liberation of Poetic Imagination in Augustan Satire |
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... become ( with their ambi- valences ) ancillary to purpose itself . By this means a pur- pose becomes richer and more complex . The poet , of all writers , because of the relative brevity of the poetic form , has occasion to develop a ...
... become ( with their ambi- valences ) ancillary to purpose itself . By this means a pur- pose becomes richer and more complex . The poet , of all writers , because of the relative brevity of the poetic form , has occasion to develop a ...
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... become part of the pattern of meaning . The ends of the satirist and the nature of his interest in the world exclude the temptation to become merely sentimental , to pursue indulgently and in a degenerate form the emotions and ideas ...
... become part of the pattern of meaning . The ends of the satirist and the nature of his interest in the world exclude the temptation to become merely sentimental , to pursue indulgently and in a degenerate form the emotions and ideas ...
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... become a glib or mechanical exercise , bereft of any pro- found insight and incapable of making any profoundly damaging criticism . Within the constraints of the satirical form Dryden could allow himself to become imaginatively involved ...
... become a glib or mechanical exercise , bereft of any pro- found insight and incapable of making any profoundly damaging criticism . Within the constraints of the satirical form Dryden could allow himself to become imaginatively involved ...
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