A Guide to English Literature, Volume 3Cassell, 1964 |
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... gives us deep thoughts in common language ... the other gives us common thoughts in abstruse words ' . It is significant that Cleveland is at his best in political satire , a mode congenial to the next age . Cowley , like Cleveland ...
... gives us deep thoughts in common language ... the other gives us common thoughts in abstruse words ' . It is significant that Cleveland is at his best in political satire , a mode congenial to the next age . Cowley , like Cleveland ...
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... gives some suggestions of the literary excellence we are to look for in the poem , particularly the power to keep central themes steadily , if loosely , in control of a multiplicity of details , the power to achieve a great sweep of ...
... gives some suggestions of the literary excellence we are to look for in the poem , particularly the power to keep central themes steadily , if loosely , in control of a multiplicity of details , the power to achieve a great sweep of ...
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... gives an extremely interesting and valuable survey of his work and personality one must allow , of course , for the obituary eulogy . 5. For his position in the history of the ode , see Robert Shafer , The English Ode to 1660 . 6. For ...
... gives an extremely interesting and valuable survey of his work and personality one must allow , of course , for the obituary eulogy . 5. For his position in the history of the ode , see Robert Shafer , The English Ode to 1660 . 6. For ...
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