The Offensive Art: The Liberation of Poetic Imagination in Augustan SatireBrynmill, 1991 - 235 Seiten |
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... represent life in exaggerated terms ( Cassius represents Caesar thus ) there is clearly something wrong when the poet constantly exag- gerates , as Dryden does , without apparently noticing he does it : Thou find'st me at my lowest ...
... represent life in exaggerated terms ( Cassius represents Caesar thus ) there is clearly something wrong when the poet constantly exag- gerates , as Dryden does , without apparently noticing he does it : Thou find'st me at my lowest ...
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... represent a desire to conform to public taste . A desire to conform does persist in literary expression , but the poet is tending to conform with the new decencies in place of the old indecencies . This may seem to signal an improvement ...
... represent a desire to conform to public taste . A desire to conform does persist in literary expression , but the poet is tending to conform with the new decencies in place of the old indecencies . This may seem to signal an improvement ...
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... represent nature as he chooses , and suppress his thoughts and feel- ings wherever they threaten to undermine the aims he has set himself within the limits prescribed by the decorum he is observing . Pope seems to have noticed that ...
... represent nature as he chooses , and suppress his thoughts and feel- ings wherever they threaten to undermine the aims he has set himself within the limits prescribed by the decorum he is observing . Pope seems to have noticed that ...
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Note on Texts page | 7 |
An Essay on Man | 175 |
The Dunciad | 198 |
Urheberrecht | |
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