Byron: His Achievement and SignificanceGrian-Aig Press, 1976 - 120 pages |
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... worst characteristics of the worst kind of poetry : the vagueness , the unseeing eye , the piling up of personification , the artificial prosody , the plati- tudinous moralising , the grandiose apostrophising , the blown- up , the sham ...
... worst characteristics of the worst kind of poetry : the vagueness , the unseeing eye , the piling up of personification , the artificial prosody , the plati- tudinous moralising , the grandiose apostrophising , the blown- up , the sham ...
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... worst elements of Romantic poetry : its blatant sentimentality , its welter in private emotions , its cheap appeal , its soft - centred subjectivity . And this over- pitched strain runs in fits and starts through the whole poem , at ...
... worst elements of Romantic poetry : its blatant sentimentality , its welter in private emotions , its cheap appeal , its soft - centred subjectivity . And this over- pitched strain runs in fits and starts through the whole poem , at ...
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... worst inn's worst room , with mat half - hung , The floors of plaster , and the walls of dung . On once a flock - bed , but repair'd with straw , With tape - tied curtains never meant to draw , The George and Garter dangling from that ...
... worst inn's worst room , with mat half - hung , The floors of plaster , and the walls of dung . On once a flock - bed , but repair'd with straw , With tape - tied curtains never meant to draw , The George and Garter dangling from that ...
Contents
Hours of Idleness | 1 |
The Satirist in Embryo | 7 |
After Childe Harold | 17 |
Copyright | |
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