Lives of the English Poets, Volume 1Oxford University Press, 1968 |
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Pagina xiv
... pleasure ' : poetry that gives no pleasure is not for him . For this reason he prefers rhyme to blank verse ; for this reason he is always intolerant of a tedious style , of monotony , of a lack of variety in subject or in treatment ...
... pleasure ' : poetry that gives no pleasure is not for him . For this reason he prefers rhyme to blank verse ; for this reason he is always intolerant of a tedious style , of monotony , of a lack of variety in subject or in treatment ...
Pagina 12
... pleasure or suffer the un- easiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chester in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenser ; and king Charles pronounced , " That Mr ...
... pleasure or suffer the un- easiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch - house in Chester in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenser ; and king Charles pronounced , " That Mr ...
Pagina 337
... pleasure and instruction . ' And these two ends may be thus distinguished . The chief end of the poet is to please ; for his immediate reputation depends on it . " The great part of the poem is to instruct , which is performed by making ...
... pleasure and instruction . ' And these two ends may be thus distinguished . The chief end of the poet is to please ; for his immediate reputation depends on it . " The great part of the poem is to instruct , which is performed by making ...
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