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... Dent ( d . 1926 ) Edited by Ernest Rhys ( d . 1946 ) POETRY & THE DRAMA POEMS AND PLAYS • BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH · INTRODUC- TION AND NOTES BY AUSTIN DOBSON OLIVER GOLDSMITH , born at Pallasmore , Co. Longford ,. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY.
... Dent ( d . 1926 ) Edited by Ernest Rhys ( d . 1946 ) POETRY & THE DRAMA POEMS AND PLAYS • BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH · INTRODUC- TION AND NOTES BY AUSTIN DOBSON OLIVER GOLDSMITH , born at Pallasmore , Co. Longford ,. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY.
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... poetry in particular , it is easy to collect them from this , and later utterances . Against blank verse he protests from the first , as suited only to the sublimest themes - which is a polite way of shelving it altogether ; while in ...
... poetry in particular , it is easy to collect them from this , and later utterances . Against blank verse he protests from the first , as suited only to the sublimest themes - which is a polite way of shelving it altogether ; while in ...
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... poetry ; he considered it a fine poem , but " overloaded with epithet , " and he deplored the remoteness and want of emotion which distinguished the Pindaric Odes . Yet from many indications in his own writings , he seems to have ...
... poetry ; he considered it a fine poem , but " overloaded with epithet , " and he deplored the remoteness and want of emotion which distinguished the Pindaric Odes . Yet from many indications in his own writings , he seems to have ...
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... poetry . " He obviously intended that The Traveller should be admired for the same reason ; and both in that poem and its successor , The Deserted Village , he lays stress upon the political import of his work . The one , we are told ...
... poetry . " He obviously intended that The Traveller should be admired for the same reason ; and both in that poem and its successor , The Deserted Village , he lays stress upon the political import of his work . The one , we are told ...
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... Poetry had but recently dawned , still less to endorse the verdict of Sir John Hawkins that “ it is one of the finest poems of the lyric kind that our language has to boast of . " Its over - soft prettiness is too much that of the ...
... Poetry had but recently dawned , still less to endorse the verdict of Sir John Hawkins that “ it is one of the finest poems of the lyric kind that our language has to boast of . " Its over - soft prettiness is too much that of the ...
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