Cowper: Poetry & ProseClarendon Press, 1960 - 196 pages |
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... sense of the supernatural on so secular a substance is a great good , though that sense be expressed in false or perplexing or irritating theories . It is unpleasant , no doubt , to hear the hammering ; the bystanders are in an evil ...
... sense of the supernatural on so secular a substance is a great good , though that sense be expressed in false or perplexing or irritating theories . It is unpleasant , no doubt , to hear the hammering ; the bystanders are in an evil ...
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... sense ; or he would fail from want of sympathy with his subject . In short , Pope does but the more represent the class and type of common - sense ' poets who substitute an animated catalogue raisonné of working thoughts and operative ...
... sense ; or he would fail from want of sympathy with his subject . In short , Pope does but the more represent the class and type of common - sense ' poets who substitute an animated catalogue raisonné of working thoughts and operative ...
Page 187
... sense sublime : from Tintern Abbey , 11. 95-102 . 11. 34-6 . A primrose , & c .: from Wordsworth's Peter Bell , Part First , 11. 248-50 . PAGE 44 , 1. 35. the painted veil : from Shelley's Sonnet ( Oxford Shelley , p . 565 ) . PAGE 45 ...
... sense sublime : from Tintern Abbey , 11. 95-102 . 11. 34-6 . A primrose , & c .: from Wordsworth's Peter Bell , Part First , 11. 248-50 . PAGE 44 , 1. 35. the painted veil : from Shelley's Sonnet ( Oxford Shelley , p . 565 ) . PAGE 45 ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
HAZLITT ON COWPER | 11 |
BAGEHOT ON COWPER | 17 |
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