The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2Encyclopædia Britannica, 1992 - 32 pages |
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Page 270
... poem “ Lon- don " in Experience is an especially powerful indictment of the new " acquisitive society " then coming into being , and the poem's naked simplicity of language is the perfect medium for conveying Blake's anguished vision of ...
... poem “ Lon- don " in Experience is an especially powerful indictment of the new " acquisitive society " then coming into being , and the poem's naked simplicity of language is the perfect medium for conveying Blake's anguished vision of ...
Page 565
... poem's interest is seldom exhausted . First , Browning often chooses an unexpected point of view , especially in his monologues , thus forcing the reader to accept an unfamiliar perspective . Second , he is capable of startling changes ...
... poem's interest is seldom exhausted . First , Browning often chooses an unexpected point of view , especially in his monologues , thus forcing the reader to accept an unfamiliar perspective . Second , he is capable of startling changes ...
Page 817
... poets Dante , Matteo Maria Boiardo , and Ludovico Ariosto . The first long English poem to be divided into can- tos was Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene ( 1590-1609 ) . Byron structured his long po- ems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ...
... poets Dante , Matteo Maria Boiardo , and Ludovico Ariosto . The first long English poem to be divided into can- tos was Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene ( 1590-1609 ) . Byron structured his long po- ems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage ...
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Beckford detail from an oil painting | 107 |
John Hoppner c 1800 in the Salford | 234 |
To make the best use of the Britannica | 260 |
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