Calcutta Review, Volume 29University of Calcutta., 1857 |
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... readers would not thank us , if we were to add to all that has been written in elucidation of the question , " what is poetry ? " From the days of Aristotle to those of Leigh Hunt , few subjects of a kindred nature have given rise to ...
... readers would not thank us , if we were to add to all that has been written in elucidation of the question , " what is poetry ? " From the days of Aristotle to those of Leigh Hunt , few subjects of a kindred nature have given rise to ...
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... readers , and keep in suspense his own reputation . Wordsworth now , we are inclined to think , holds his high position , not because of all that he has written , but in spite of one half of it ; for the reputation of a writer is fixed ...
... readers , and keep in suspense his own reputation . Wordsworth now , we are inclined to think , holds his high position , not because of all that he has written , but in spite of one half of it ; for the reputation of a writer is fixed ...
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... readers need not be told , we hope , that the prevalent tone of poetic literature there is not worthy of imitation . It is what the Edinburgh Review happily de- signated of the " spasmodic " type , which being forced and unreal , must ...
... readers need not be told , we hope , that the prevalent tone of poetic literature there is not worthy of imitation . It is what the Edinburgh Review happily de- signated of the " spasmodic " type , which being forced and unreal , must ...
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... readers in the " Miscellaneous Notices " of this Review on their first appearance . A " Dream of a Star " occupies nineteen pages of the pamphlet in which it appears ; and we are bound to say , it should not have appeared at all . We ...
... readers in the " Miscellaneous Notices " of this Review on their first appearance . A " Dream of a Star " occupies nineteen pages of the pamphlet in which it appears ; and we are bound to say , it should not have appeared at all . We ...
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... reader . We regret that we cannot pronounce a more favourable opinion on the literary production of one , evidently possessed of a mind deeply imbued with senti- ments of a pure and healthful quality , and who writes , as all true poets ...
... reader . We regret that we cannot pronounce a more favourable opinion on the literary production of one , evidently possessed of a mind deeply imbued with senti- ments of a pure and healthful quality , and who writes , as all true poets ...
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