The Offensive Art: The Liberation of Poetic Imagination in Augustan Satire |
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... Interest soon woud break , And with such odious Aid make David weak . 281-8 This pragmatic interest in affairs , in how things come about or why they fail to come about , has a modern ring to it . Political activity is being ...
... Interest soon woud break , And with such odious Aid make David weak . 281-8 This pragmatic interest in affairs , in how things come about or why they fail to come about , has a modern ring to it . Political activity is being ...
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... interest in the poem ) because taken as an inquiry into the state and nature of man , the poem invites just the kind of interest and attention it gets . On the other hand , for the person who simply likes reading verse , what was most ...
... interest in the poem ) because taken as an inquiry into the state and nature of man , the poem invites just the kind of interest and attention it gets . On the other hand , for the person who simply likes reading verse , what was most ...
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... interest in the world ( though he sees it can produce ideas of beauty and destruction , grief and shame ) , and spurns too the pettiness , the triviality and the nonsense . Yet he produces new ideas of pettiness , triviality and ...
... interest in the world ( though he sees it can produce ideas of beauty and destruction , grief and shame ) , and spurns too the pettiness , the triviality and the nonsense . Yet he produces new ideas of pettiness , triviality and ...
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