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Page 92
... poets have experimented with syllabic metres ; the Tudor poet Thomas Wyat's transla- tions from Petrarch's Italian poems of the 14th century attempted to establish a metrical form based on a decasyl- labic or 10 - syllabled line : The ...
... poets have experimented with syllabic metres ; the Tudor poet Thomas Wyat's transla- tions from Petrarch's Italian poems of the 14th century attempted to establish a metrical form based on a decasyl- labic or 10 - syllabled line : The ...
Page 94
... poet of genius is unique ; rhythm is perhaps the most personal element of the poet's expressive equipment . Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning , English poets who shared the intellectual and spiritual concerns of the Victorian age ...
... poet of genius is unique ; rhythm is perhaps the most personal element of the poet's expressive equipment . Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning , English poets who shared the intellectual and spiritual concerns of the Victorian age ...
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... poet with divine inspiration , but this , too , was cause for worry ; a man possessed by such madness would subvert the interests of a rational polity . Poets were therefore to be banished from the hypothetical republic . In his Poetics ...
... poet with divine inspiration , but this , too , was cause for worry ; a man possessed by such madness would subvert the interests of a rational polity . Poets were therefore to be banished from the hypothetical republic . In his Poetics ...
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