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The Poet . 3 HAT the " Seasons " is not among the books 20 which everybody T knows and nobody reads , is due in part to Wordsworth's often quoted saying : " that from Milton to Thomson no poet had added to English literature a new image ...
The Poet . 3 HAT the " Seasons " is not among the books 20 which everybody T knows and nobody reads , is due in part to Wordsworth's often quoted saying : " that from Milton to Thomson no poet had added to English literature a new image ...
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We read that his master here did not perceive his superiority , but that the young poet was writing continuously , and had the fortitude to destroy on every New Year's Day the productions of the year previous A degree of judgment and ...
We read that his master here did not perceive his superiority , but that the young poet was writing continuously , and had the fortitude to destroy on every New Year's Day the productions of the year previous A degree of judgment and ...
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Knowing what we know of Johnson's absolute incapacity for the true poetry of nature , we may find some of the amusement which the Eighteenth century yields us at every turn in his judgment of this poet : “ The reader of the Seasons ...
Knowing what we know of Johnson's absolute incapacity for the true poetry of nature , we may find some of the amusement which the Eighteenth century yields us at every turn in his judgment of this poet : “ The reader of the Seasons ...
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| Title | The Seasons Volume 3 of Illustrated gleanings from the classics |
| Author | James Thomson |
| Publisher | David Bryce and Son, 1889 |
| Original from | Columbia University |
| Digitized | 14 Aug 2009 |
| Length | 215 pages |
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