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Addison attitude beauty better Biographia Literaria calenture century poetry Chalmers characteristic classical Coleridge conscious contemporary Cowper critics delight Discourses doubt Dryden Dunciad eighteenth eighteenth-century poet eighteenth-century reader Elegy Eloisa to Abelard emotions English poetry epic Epistle Essays experience expression eyes fact familiar fancy fashion feeling Gray Gray's heroic couplet Hobbes Homer human Ibid imagination imitation John John Dennis Johnson kind Lady language Latin less literary Lives Metaphysical poets Milton mind mind-wandering mock-heroic nature never Nicholas Rowe Note o'er observed once passage Pastoral perhaps period periphrasis Pindaric pleasure poem poet's poetic diction polite society Pope Pope's prose readers of poetry reason refined remarkable Reynolds Romantic Sarah Drew satire sense sort Spectator Spingarn stanza Stephen Duck Swift taste things Thomson thought tion to-day translation twentieth century verse Virgil words Wordsworth write written wrote