Byron: His Achievement and SignificanceGrian-Aig Press, 1976 - 120 pages |
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... Merely to make our love romantic ? Why should you weep like Lydia Languish , And fret with self - created anguish ; He had had privately printed two slim volumes : Fugitive Pieces ( 1806 ) and Poems on Various Occasions ( 1807 ) , both ...
... Merely to make our love romantic ? Why should you weep like Lydia Languish , And fret with self - created anguish ; He had had privately printed two slim volumes : Fugitive Pieces ( 1806 ) and Poems on Various Occasions ( 1807 ) , both ...
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... merely because they wrote in the old classical manner . By doing so they certainly avoided the worst faults of the Romantic school , but at the cost of all claim to originality or greatness . Not that English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ...
... merely because they wrote in the old classical manner . By doing so they certainly avoided the worst faults of the Romantic school , but at the cost of all claim to originality or greatness . Not that English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ...
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... merely quizzical , And deviate into matters rather dry . I ne'er decide what I shall say , and this I call Much too poetical : men should know why They write , and for what end ; but , note or text , I never know the word which will ...
... merely quizzical , And deviate into matters rather dry . I ne'er decide what I shall say , and this I call Much too poetical : men should know why They write , and for what end ; but , note or text , I never know the word which will ...
Contents
Hours of Idleness | 1 |
The Satirist in Embryo | 7 |
After Childe Harold | 17 |
Copyright | |
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