The Offensive Art: The Liberation of Poetic Imagination in Augustan Satire |
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Page 27
... notions of love employed in the poetic drama and those Dryden used in the comedies , but no real conflict as far as he was con- cerned . The " poetic " ideas of love were evidently too absurd in his eyes to disturb or modify his ...
... notions of love employed in the poetic drama and those Dryden used in the comedies , but no real conflict as far as he was con- cerned . The " poetic " ideas of love were evidently too absurd in his eyes to disturb or modify his ...
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... notions of love or honour . In some sense , the tension between public taste and the art - forms which both acknowledge and transcend it ( a tension which ensures that the audience or reader will not turn away uncomprehendingly at the ...
... notions of love or honour . In some sense , the tension between public taste and the art - forms which both acknowledge and transcend it ( a tension which ensures that the audience or reader will not turn away uncomprehendingly at the ...
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... notions of the world . Pope's inability to bring his notions of the world into conformity with other people's was not simply the dissent of a citizen who saw something wrong with his age . It was the dissent of a displaced poetic ...
... notions of the world . Pope's inability to bring his notions of the world into conformity with other people's was not simply the dissent of a citizen who saw something wrong with his age . It was the dissent of a displaced poetic ...
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