The Offensive Art: The Liberation of Poetic Imagination in Augustan Satire |
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... represent life in exaggerated terms ( Cassius represents Caesar thus ) there is clearly something wrong when the poet constantly exag- gerates , as Dryden does , without apparently noticing he does it : Thou find'st me at my lowest ...
... represent life in exaggerated terms ( Cassius represents Caesar thus ) there is clearly something wrong when the poet constantly exag- gerates , as Dryden does , without apparently noticing he does it : Thou find'st me at my lowest ...
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... represent nature as he chooses , and suppress his thoughts and feel- ings wherever they threaten to undermine the aims he has set himself within the limits prescribed by the decorum he is observing . Pope seems to have noticed that ...
... represent nature as he chooses , and suppress his thoughts and feel- ings wherever they threaten to undermine the aims he has set himself within the limits prescribed by the decorum he is observing . Pope seems to have noticed that ...
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... represented is seriously represented . Only the creator's ironic knowledge that he is committing himself to an ident ... represent elegantly the gro- tesque , to see beauty in diseased and corrupt forms of life , to refine the gross ...
... represented is seriously represented . Only the creator's ironic knowledge that he is committing himself to an ident ... represent elegantly the gro- tesque , to see beauty in diseased and corrupt forms of life , to refine the gross ...
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Note on Texts page | 7 |
An Essay on Man | 175 |
The Dunciad | 198 |
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