The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical EssaysJohn L. Mahoney D. C. Heath, 1980 - 765 pages |
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... poet's own observations and immediately drawn from nature , are the only original ones in the proper sense . A poet who adopts images , who culls out incidents he has met with in the writings of other authors , and who imitates ...
... poet's own observations and immediately drawn from nature , are the only original ones in the proper sense . A poet who adopts images , who culls out incidents he has met with in the writings of other authors , and who imitates ...
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... poets , we never had any one great poet that was correct ; and he desired me to make that my study and aim.1 On the face of it this advice appears suited to a prose writer rather than to a poet . But for Pope and his contemporaries the ...
... poets , we never had any one great poet that was correct ; and he desired me to make that my study and aim.1 On the face of it this advice appears suited to a prose writer rather than to a poet . But for Pope and his contemporaries the ...
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... poet , the more exact his reproduction of external reality . " Description is the great test of a Poet's imagination , " Hugh Blair pronounced ; " and always distinguishes an original from a second - rate Genius . ” His contemporary ...
... poet , the more exact his reproduction of external reality . " Description is the great test of a Poet's imagination , " Hugh Blair pronounced ; " and always distinguishes an original from a second - rate Genius . ” His contemporary ...
Contents
Mark Akenside | 10 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
from THE DUNCIAD | 98 |
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