In Search of Stability: The Poetry of William CowperBookman Associates, 1960 - 189 pages |
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Page 115
... verse ( after The Task ) because " Not having the music of rhyme , it requires so close an attention to the pause and the cadence , and such a peculiar mode of expres- sion , as render it , to me at least , the most difficult species of ...
... verse ( after The Task ) because " Not having the music of rhyme , it requires so close an attention to the pause and the cadence , and such a peculiar mode of expres- sion , as render it , to me at least , the most difficult species of ...
Page 164
... verse , demanded a poem of that kind from the author , and gave him the SOFA for a subject . He obeyed . ( Poetical Works , p . 128. ) When all things are equally significant as exercises , noth- ing really has significance ; and what ...
... verse , demanded a poem of that kind from the author , and gave him the SOFA for a subject . He obeyed . ( Poetical Works , p . 128. ) When all things are equally significant as exercises , noth- ing really has significance ; and what ...
Page 165
... verse , except that the Reader has an exquisite pleasure in seeing such natural language so naturally connected with metre . The beauty of this stanza tempts me to conclude with a principle which ought never to be lost sight of , and ...
... verse , except that the Reader has an exquisite pleasure in seeing such natural language so naturally connected with metre . The beauty of this stanza tempts me to conclude with a principle which ought never to be lost sight of , and ...
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