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... Donne . But it is the concluding assertion , that the so - called metaphysical poets were in one way or another all disciples of Donne , which seems to me the most questionable part of my brief re - statement of the common view . There ...
... Donne . But it is the concluding assertion , that the so - called metaphysical poets were in one way or another all disciples of Donne , which seems to me the most questionable part of my brief re - statement of the common view . There ...
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... Donne's great reputation as a poet during his lifetime , a reputation which he was beginning to establish during the ... Donne , exerted , like Donne , a private rather than a public influence upon other poets . Though in a far less ...
... Donne's great reputation as a poet during his lifetime , a reputation which he was beginning to establish during the ... Donne , exerted , like Donne , a private rather than a public influence upon other poets . Though in a far less ...
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... Donne , and a great appropriater of the phrases of classical poets . Although his diction is habitually far more plain and colloquial than Spenser's and far nearer to Donne's , he is at the same time a much more literary poet than Donne ...
... Donne , and a great appropriater of the phrases of classical poets . Although his diction is habitually far more plain and colloquial than Spenser's and far nearer to Donne's , he is at the same time a much more literary poet than Donne ...
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Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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