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... achievement ; but because I wish to show that Keats was greater , far greater , than his actual achievement , because I wish to present him as the perfect type of the great poet , as a poetic genius second only to Shakespeare in our ...
... achievement ; but because I wish to show that Keats was greater , far greater , than his actual achievement , because I wish to present him as the perfect type of the great poet , as a poetic genius second only to Shakespeare in our ...
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... achievement : and men were conscious rather of what they drew from it than of what they added to it . Yet add they did ; and Chaucer added royally , but as it were impersonally . His ' translations ' were free , because the substance ...
... achievement : and men were conscious rather of what they drew from it than of what they added to it . Yet add they did ; and Chaucer added royally , but as it were impersonally . His ' translations ' were free , because the substance ...
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... achievement ) he rightly regarded as his great achievement ; and one can find in his later works many traces of his belief that in this progress he was prophetic . He felt that he was battling , more or less single - handed , against ...
... achievement ) he rightly regarded as his great achievement ; and one can find in his later works many traces of his belief that in this progress he was prophetic . He felt that he was battling , more or less single - handed , against ...
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