The Background of English Literature, Classical & Romantic |
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... English journalist and English poet use the English language because they are writing for English - speaking people , though there may be all the difference in the world in the degree of precision and delicacy with which they use that ...
... English journalist and English poet use the English language because they are writing for English - speaking people , though there may be all the difference in the world in the degree of precision and delicacy with which they use that ...
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... English poetry with a quickening influx of passionate feeling , but the melodramatic tones of these earlier poems ... English Evangelical morals and piety . For to read Byron's later poetry aright one must consider its relation to the ...
... English poetry with a quickening influx of passionate feeling , but the melodramatic tones of these earlier poems ... English Evangelical morals and piety . For to read Byron's later poetry aright one must consider its relation to the ...
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... English prose of the sixteenth century — or even late fifteenth , — “ the splendid prose of Malory and Berners " , the prose of the English Bible , has never been surpassed . It is not true that Dryden found English poetry brick and ...
... English prose of the sixteenth century — or even late fifteenth , — “ the splendid prose of Malory and Berners " , the prose of the English Bible , has never been surpassed . It is not true that Dryden found English poetry brick and ...
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