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Page 18
... comparison with Dryden's , but even in comparison with those of several earlier seventeenth - century authors . On the other hand , in respect of his optimism , his rationalism , and what might almost be called his singleness of vision ...
... comparison with Dryden's , but even in comparison with those of several earlier seventeenth - century authors . On the other hand , in respect of his optimism , his rationalism , and what might almost be called his singleness of vision ...
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... comparison with Spenser , Donne seems eccentric and provincial in comparison with Jonson , and , while Milton is in the main stream , the successors of Jonson and Donne , even including Dryden and Pope , seem to be paddling in various ...
... comparison with Spenser , Donne seems eccentric and provincial in comparison with Jonson , and , while Milton is in the main stream , the successors of Jonson and Donne , even including Dryden and Pope , seem to be paddling in various ...
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... comparisons is only one , and by no means the most important characteristic , of Donne's poetry ; secondly , that in Donne's poetry such comparisons are nearly always conceptual rather than pictorial , and nearly always used to ...
... comparisons is only one , and by no means the most important characteristic , of Donne's poetry ; secondly , that in Donne's poetry such comparisons are nearly always conceptual rather than pictorial , and nearly always used to ...
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Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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