The Offensive Art: The Liberation of Poetic Imagination in Augustan Satire |
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Page 101
... thinking which supports the belief that a conformity in poetic expression is either necessary or inevitable appear in Professor Suther- land's Preface to Eighteenth - Century Poetry . The tendency of such thinking is always to minimize ...
... thinking which supports the belief that a conformity in poetic expression is either necessary or inevitable appear in Professor Suther- land's Preface to Eighteenth - Century Poetry . The tendency of such thinking is always to minimize ...
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... thinking and feeling quite natural in a writer of his time , place and sensibility . The result of such a relapse would probably be the " anti - natural way of thinking " ironically advocated by Pope in The Art of Sinking . In practice ...
... thinking and feeling quite natural in a writer of his time , place and sensibility . The result of such a relapse would probably be the " anti - natural way of thinking " ironically advocated by Pope in The Art of Sinking . In practice ...
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... thinking . There are few signs of the conscience which attends serious thinking , the con- science which curbs , sobers and inhibits the mind's ex- cesses . The poet's activities here exemplify that dangerous state of half - knowledge ...
... thinking . There are few signs of the conscience which attends serious thinking , the con- science which curbs , sobers and inhibits the mind's ex- cesses . The poet's activities here exemplify that dangerous state of half - knowledge ...
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