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... poet was by turns , if not simultaneously , a medievalist , a Chaucerian , and a classicist - producing in the last of ... poetic art ; in France they touched one of the fountain - heads of the stream which had so richly fertilized the ...
... poet was by turns , if not simultaneously , a medievalist , a Chaucerian , and a classicist - producing in the last of ... poetic art ; in France they touched one of the fountain - heads of the stream which had so richly fertilized the ...
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... poets , 1 William Blake ( 1757-1827 ) has in the present century not only been accorded his rightful high rank in graphic and poetic art but has also provided inexhaustible material for an intellectualist cult centred upon the least ...
... poets , 1 William Blake ( 1757-1827 ) has in the present century not only been accorded his rightful high rank in graphic and poetic art but has also provided inexhaustible material for an intellectualist cult centred upon the least ...
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... poet's source of strength , and become the instructed servant of the stage . Any notion that a poet , however abundant his poetic gift may be , can leap into the theatre as a ready - made playwright is a presumption of the ignorant ...
... poet's source of strength , and become the instructed servant of the stage . Any notion that a poet , however abundant his poetic gift may be , can leap into the theatre as a ready - made playwright is a presumption of the ignorant ...
Contents
UNTIL CHAUCER | 1 |
CHAUCER HIS CONTEMPORARIES | 14 |
POPULAR LITERATURE 3333 | 43 |
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