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... poetry out of almost bare argument - how different is the poetry of both of them from the typical non - dramatic poetry of the Elizabethan age , and how difficult it is for most of us to think of what we regard as the typical non ...
... poetry out of almost bare argument - how different is the poetry of both of them from the typical non - dramatic poetry of the Elizabethan age , and how difficult it is for most of us to think of what we regard as the typical non ...
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... poetry of Shakespeare and his contemporaries , with its closeness to the idiom and rhythm of the spoken language , as the chief glory of English poetry , then we may be inclined to say that Jonson's poetry and Donne's , and Donne's ( in ...
... poetry of Shakespeare and his contemporaries , with its closeness to the idiom and rhythm of the spoken language , as the chief glory of English poetry , then we may be inclined to say that Jonson's poetry and Donne's , and Donne's ( in ...
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... poets ; and in Donne's poetry there is almost nothing and in Jonson's poetry very little of what , even in a wide sense , may be called poetic diction . Description , except when satirical or realistic , plays little part in their poetry ...
... poets ; and in Donne's poetry there is almost nothing and in Jonson's poetry very little of what , even in a wide sense , may be called poetic diction . Description , except when satirical or realistic , plays little part in their poetry ...
Contents
Preface by Geoffrey Tillotson | 7 |
Some remarks on seventeenthcentury poetry | 22 |
The Latin poems | 40 |
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