The Offensive Art: The Liberation of Poetic Imagination in Augustan Satire |
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... poetic style comes to the fore . The part that translation played in the develop- ment of the Augustan poetic style is paralleled , in Pope's case , by the way in which the style seems to take pos- session of the epic , giving it a ...
... poetic style comes to the fore . The part that translation played in the develop- ment of the Augustan poetic style is paralleled , in Pope's case , by the way in which the style seems to take pos- session of the epic , giving it a ...
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... poet's sensibility . Whereas the pious expressions concerning the sanctity of the poetic task made in his idler moments are the products of indulgence , of forgetting the world that jostled him as man and poet . The Augustan poets ...
... poet's sensibility . Whereas the pious expressions concerning the sanctity of the poetic task made in his idler moments are the products of indulgence , of forgetting the world that jostled him as man and poet . The Augustan poets ...
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... poet's activities . In these respects what Pope does is characteristic of what poets do ; like- wise , this poetic achievement is characteristic of other poetic achievements . The difference is that Pope does it satirically . There are ...
... poet's activities . In these respects what Pope does is characteristic of what poets do ; like- wise , this poetic achievement is characteristic of other poetic achievements . The difference is that Pope does it satirically . There are ...
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