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Page 32
... poem's failure to hold together consistently has considerable plausibility , and appears to take cognisance in greater or lesser degree of the substance of the poem . Most readers will find themselves agreeing with the arguments put ...
... poem's failure to hold together consistently has considerable plausibility , and appears to take cognisance in greater or lesser degree of the substance of the poem . Most readers will find themselves agreeing with the arguments put ...
Page 39
... poem , as an author of his calibre would do , and to make that heroic poem into ' a continued allegory or darke conceit ' . Such a combination was also to be expected although not on the thorough - going scale with which Spenser carried ...
... poem , as an author of his calibre would do , and to make that heroic poem into ' a continued allegory or darke conceit ' . Such a combination was also to be expected although not on the thorough - going scale with which Spenser carried ...
Page 47
... poem as a whole ; and it makes the earlier hypothesis of Miss Janet Spens appear too simple as well as lacking in sufficient evidence . According to Mrs Bennett , the poem began from a desire to overgo Ariosto in a chivalric romance ...
... poem as a whole ; and it makes the earlier hypothesis of Miss Janet Spens appear too simple as well as lacking in sufficient evidence . According to Mrs Bennett , the poem began from a desire to overgo Ariosto in a chivalric romance ...
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