The Offensive Art: The Liberation of Poetic Imagination in Augustan Satire |
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... human nature which provoked antagonisms in the poetic sensi- bility seems to preclude them from having any place in the poet's vision of order . Indeed , his grounds for repudiating them are that they threaten his sense of order . It ...
... human nature which provoked antagonisms in the poetic sensi- bility seems to preclude them from having any place in the poet's vision of order . Indeed , his grounds for repudiating them are that they threaten his sense of order . It ...
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... human bliss stands still , And tastes the good without the fall to ill . IV . 309-12 The absence of circumspection corresponds to a lack of awareness of the problems , difficulties and uncertainties . which form the background to the ...
... human bliss stands still , And tastes the good without the fall to ill . IV . 309-12 The absence of circumspection corresponds to a lack of awareness of the problems , difficulties and uncertainties . which form the background to the ...
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... human activity . Again , wit must make the necessary adjustments to his magnificent elo- quence , and bend it thither towards reality . Since the activi- ties and productions of the dunces have nothing to do with " the Word " , or with ...
... human activity . Again , wit must make the necessary adjustments to his magnificent elo- quence , and bend it thither towards reality . Since the activi- ties and productions of the dunces have nothing to do with " the Word " , or with ...
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Note on Texts page | 7 |
An Essay on Man | 175 |
The Dunciad | 198 |
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